I already answered on groups ;)<br><br>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.<br>
<br>Nat<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 1:15 AM, Addison Berry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:drupal@rocktreesky.com">drupal@rocktreesky.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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On Nov 20, 2008, at 7:40 PM, Joshua Brauer wrote:<br>
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> In sort my vote would be that the email list should remain the<br>
> primary workspace and wiki pages, when appropriate, can serve a<br>
> valuable purpose as a supplement.<br>
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</div>Well the main problem is that we can't "occasionally" use wiki pages<br>
as a supplement. You have to be a member to use a wiki page and if we<br>
open up membership then folks can create any kind of group content<br>
which will end up spawning some discussions on g.d.o and some on the<br>
mail list.<br>
<br>
I think the bottom line, no matter what we do is that there will<br>
always be a group that prefers either email lists or web based. I'm<br>
not sure how to accommodate everyone (we can't). A lot of feedback<br>
that I get when trying to recruit new members to our discussions<br>
though is that they don't want to join an email list. Or even if they<br>
are willing to, it is very frustrating to tell new members "oh yeah,<br>
we are talking about that. you can read up on this nasty piper mail<br>
interface and then join the mail list and create a new thread<br>
referring to the archive version that you read." So, um, how many<br>
people have you seen jump into our discussions like that? *me hears<br>
crickets chirp* That is seriously one of my main motivations, in terms<br>
of getting new people involved, that I have to deal with all the time<br>
when talking to people who want to help out.<br>
<br>
I do get the strong arguments in favor of the mail list and no, g.d.o<br>
is not ideal, but I do still feel that the advantages of g.d.o are<br>
greater in terms of collaboration and getting new people involved.<br>
Unfortunately it is also hard to reach out to get the opinion of<br>
people who don't use the mail list since, de facto, they have limited<br>
ways of getting involved in discussions. If they don't subscribe to<br>
the RSS feed for the doc group, they have no idea this discussion is<br>
even happening right now. That seems pretty limiting in and of itself.<br>
<br>
- Addi<br>
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