- From: Jeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin@google.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 13:18:38 -0800
- To: "Mandyam, Giridhar" <mandyam@qti.qualcomm.com>
- Cc: Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com>, "public-geolocation@w3.org" <public-geolocation@w3.org>
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
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