[documentation] Proposal to deprecate the docs mailing list

[Steven Peck]

My reasons from before still stand.  I rarely visit group at all.  I
found it alien to my work flow process in the past and while I will
look again, I do not see that core facet changing for me.

Up to you.

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Nathaniel Catchpole
<catch56 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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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