- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2020 20:48:03 +0300
- To: public-font-text@w3.org
Hi Christopher, Good to see you here. On 2020-09-04 03:14, Christopher Slye wrote: > Is using GitHub, a proprietary service, really the best place to “manage discussion threads, rather than emails”? I understand the concern, but yes. This is the approach that pretty much all WGs, BGs and CGs are using now. I agree that it is proprietary, but it is built on top of git, which is an open-source technology. Also, W3C does archive all the issue discussion to a mailing list so in the event of GitHub suddently changing or disappearing, we would still have access to issue discussion - at greatly reduced efficiency, of course. > Doesn't the W3C have time-tested support for archiving email discussions on its lists? Or do I misunderstand? It does. And tracking issues whose discussion spans many months or years, using monthly or three-monthly mail archives, with mail user agents (looking at you, Outlook) that mangle referer headers, is a very slow and error prone way of working. > -- Chris Lilley @svgeesus Technical Director @ W3C W3C Strategy Team, Core Web Design W3C Architecture & Technology Team, Core Web & Media
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