Re: Mirroring discussion in Github Repo's on public-geo

On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 1:07 PM, Mandyam, Giridhar
<mandyam@qti.qualcomm.com> wrote:
> Hi Marcos,
>> Doesn't that defeat the purpose and create duplication? If people want to participate or watch a repo, they can just click the subscribe button on Github. The mailing list should only be used for administrivia or random group announcements.
>
> Reasonable point-of-view, and I certainly appreciate your input given your long involvement in W3C standards creation.  Moreover,  I wouldn't mind getting over-arching guidance from the top levels of the W3C as to what place the GH repo discussions have versus group mailing lists.
>
> The primary reason why I requested mirroring (which is not the same thing as inhibiting discussion on the repo's) was ensure that any technical discussion is captured in the W3C mailing lists.
>
> I will quote from the W3C's description of the public mailing lists (https://www.w3.org/Mail/):
>
> " W3C hosts hundreds of mailing lists and archives, many of them public, for the benefit of the Web community at large. By providing this service, we hope to foster a highly responsive and interactive community for creating new ideas and advancing web technologies and culture."
>
> This to me means that the mailing lists are meant for a lot more than administrivia.  Some groups in the W3C (e.g. WebRTC, Media Capture TF, DAP) have done a much better job than I have of allowing discussion to continue on the repo as necessary while also moving certain topics to the mailing lists.
>

For extra context:
* The Web NFC CG mirrors all github activity to the main list:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-web-nfc/2016Jan/thread.html
* The Web Bluetooth CG mirrors github activity to a separate list:
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-web-bluetooth-log/2016Feb/thread.html
* Recently, Web Bluetooth decided to manually announce interesting
github threads to the mailing list, so that people who've disabled
github emails can know to subscribe:
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-web-bluetooth/2016Feb/0001.html

Received on Wednesday, 10 February 2016 21:19:26 UTC