[documentation] Proposal to deprecate the docs mailing list

[Nathaniel Catchpole]

I already answered on groups ;)

However for those who still want e-mail, I think it would be worth filing
feature requests on groups for two things - full messages in notifications,
and mailhandler to allow people to reply to notifications via e-mail and
have those posted on groups. Both would involve some work, but that would
then give people a complete choice - and I'm sure it's not only the docs
team which feels a need for this.

Nat

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 1:15 AM, Addison Berry <drupal at rocktreesky.com>wrote:

>
> On Nov 20, 2008, at 7:40 PM, Joshua Brauer wrote:
> >>>
> >
> > In sort my vote would be that the email list should remain the
> > primary workspace and wiki pages, when appropriate, can serve a
> > valuable purpose as a supplement.
>
> Well the main problem is that we can't "occasionally" use wiki pages
> as a supplement. You have to be a member to use a wiki page and if we
> open up membership then folks can create any kind of group content
> which will end up spawning some discussions on g.d.o and some on the
> mail list.
>
> I think the bottom line, no matter what we do is that there will
> always be a group that prefers either email lists or web based. I'm
> not sure how to accommodate everyone (we can't). A lot of feedback
> that I get when trying to recruit new members to our discussions
> though is that they don't want to join an email list. Or even if they
> are willing to, it is very frustrating to tell new members "oh yeah,
> we are talking about that. you can read up on this nasty piper mail
> interface and then join the mail list and create a new thread
> referring to the archive version that you read." So, um, how many
> people have you seen jump into our discussions like that? *me hears
> crickets chirp* That is seriously one of my main motivations, in terms
> of getting new people involved, that I have to deal with all the time
> when talking to people who want to help out.
>
> I do get the strong arguments in favor of the mail list and no, g.d.o
> is not ideal, but I do still feel that the advantages  of g.d.o are
> greater in terms of collaboration and getting new people involved.
> Unfortunately it is also hard to reach out to get the opinion of
> people who don't use the mail list since, de facto, they have limited
> ways of getting involved in discussions. If they don't subscribe to
> the RSS feed for the doc group, they have no idea this discussion is
> even happening right now. That seems pretty limiting in and of itself.
>
> - Addi
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