4 Mar
2026
4 Mar
'26
9:52 p.m.
Hi,
Le mercredi 4 mars 2026, 15:15:16 heure normale d’Europe centrale Stephen Paul
Weber a écrit :
Why you wouldn't have emails always with you too? There are plenty of email
clients available on mobile platforms. And I personally find easier to
participate asynchronously with email than MUC (it feels weird to me to answer
to an old message in a MUC).
I wanted to
split off the recent discussion by Peter and Travis suggesting
we may consider moving away from mailing lists in favor of MUCs. I think
this deserves its own thread so as not to dilute the ongoing conversation
in the previous discussion.
I greatly prefer MUCs for 90% of discussion since they are always with me
and easy to participate in asynchronously when I have time without feeling
like I must really "sit down to form a reply" in very long form.
Well from my experience, I'm more reluctant to reply in a MUC, because people
can reply immediately, and you're good for a discussion which may last for
hours. Sure you can stop replying, but I find it easier to do it in a mailing
list, and go back to it at a later point if necessary. Of course your mileage
may vary.
However, I don't think we should remove long form
completely. Of course long
form could be a wiki or a forum, but the mailing lists already exist and
work well for this so I don't see any downside to keeping this format.
We can have XMPP forums and keep the mailing lists at the same time.
Best,
Goffi