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

Although on the other hand the device APIs working group is at least
considering
<https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-device-apis/2016Feb/0030.html>
disabling
some of this, since it has resulted in fragmented discussions where
sometimes people only reply to the list rather than to the github issues.

On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Jeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin@google.com>
wrote:

> 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
>
>