- From: Christopher Slye <christopher@theslyes.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2020 13:34:16 -0700
- To: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Cc: public-font-text@w3.org
Hi Chris. Thanks, and nice to hear from you. You and some others here know I have been out of the W3C trenches for a while, so I’ll try to contribute what I can and otherwise keep my head down! I appreciate you and others taking a little time to fill in the blanks. Cheers, Christopher > On Sep 4, 2020, at 10:48 AM, Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org> wrote: > > 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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