[cfe-dev] [llvm-dev] RFC: Moving toward Discord and Discourse for LLVM's discussions
Renato Golin via cfe-dev
cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org
Wed Nov 20 10:24:11 PST 2019
On Wed, 20 Nov 2019 at 17:23, Zachary Turner <zturner at roblox.com> wrote:
>> If we do select a provider (for Discourse, another or even Stack
>> Overflow), we need to make sure we'll always be able to download the
>> whole history and move to another service if the terms stop being
>> reasonable (or we get tired of it).
>
> I disagree. This thread is about an IRC replacement, not about a forum replacement . It is inherently for discussions of a transient nature whose history need not be preserved. Like "Hey @rengolin, what's the status of bug N that you were looking at?" Even idle chit-chat and banter. Exactly the kinds of discussions that preserving history is not useful for.
This thread is for both.
That paragraph was about the forum replacement.
I agree preserving history of chats aren't useful.
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