<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">+1 from me for the replacement of the mailing list by a web based forum<div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 18 Nov 2019, at 15:18, Sam McCall via llvm-dev <<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org" class="">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 2:49 PM Robinson, Paul via llvm-dev <<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org" target="_blank" class="">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div class=""><p class="MsoNormal">| mailing lists for longer-form discussions are unfamiliar, difficult, and often intimidating for newcomers<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Um… what? While I know (via my own children) that folks nowadays use multiple avenues of communication, it’s *<b class="">really</b>* hard to imagine email as a *<b class="">mechanism</b>* being unfamiliar/difficult/intimidating. Moving to a new mechanism
wouldn’t alter the fact of the very large number of strangers participating, which to my mind would be the unfamiliar/difficult/intimidating part.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">--paulr</p></div></div></blockquote><div class="">Some cases I can think of here:</div><div class=""> - unclear how to reply to a mail that was sent before you subscribed to the ML (obvious newbie problem - generally I'd lurk on the web until I wanted to reply)</div><div class=""> - unclear how to create a partitioned space (new mailing list) for a topic</div><div class=""> - subscription state/bounce messages/moderation are all IMO unclear if you haven't used mailman before<br class=""></div><div class=""> - the volume of traffic on (effectively-mandatory) lists is so high that it requires using mail filters, most people don't use those</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(A weak +1 to the concern about this change being made by some people in a conference room somewhere - if that's the decision-making process that's fine with me, but it'd be great to know that and have a defined way to get issues on the agenda)</div></div></div>
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