Migrate to Mailing Lists to Modern Forum Software

[Andrew Haley]

On 12/29/20 4:08 PM, Victor Williams Stafusa da Silva wrote:
> I am just an occasional lurker here. But if my opinion counts (specially as
> being an outsider), I think that mailing lists are extremely cumbersome. I
> would certainly participate a lot more if the discussions had a more modern
> and friendly format and I think that GitHub is very good at this.

What do you mean by "participate"? Do you mean contribute to OpenJDK in
some way?

I don't really understand what you want to happen by discussions being
linearized. The discussions themselves, messages between groups of people,
are not linear but branching. Any scheme to impose a linear ordering on a
naturally branching discussion would surely be misleading, so I guess you
can't mean you want that.

I just did a Google search and immediately found this discussion in several
places. It seems to me that this property of not depending on a single site
is extremely valuable. So, we have searchability.

If you don't like digests, don't subscribe to them. I don't like digests
either.

Gmail has many problems. The greatest advantage of email is that you don't
have to use a particular provider.

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Andrew Haley  (he/him)
Java Platform Lead Engineer
Red Hat UK Ltd. <https://www.redhat.com>
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