Re: [w3c/sdw] SSN / SOSA / Activity Hierarchy (#309)

Kerry,

[replying to this email out of Github and cc-ing on the mailing list for 
the archive]

Le 28/09/2016 à 08:35, Kerry Taylor a écrit :
> I note that this message came specifically to me in cc but I can’t make
> any sense of it. Perhaps it was an accident. If it was substantive ssn
> discussion then please post to
> public-sdw-wg@w3.org<mailto:public-sdw-wg@w3.org>. See
> https://www.w3.org/2016/08/23-sdwssn-minutes#item03 and earlier ssn and
> sdw meetings for this policy.

This is not the first time you seem to believe that emails are addressed 
specifically to you while there are not so I feel I need to remind how 
github notifications work. You are watching a specific github repository 
and consequently, you receive emails each time that an issue is being 
raised or commented, or a pull request is made, or ... and you're not 
the only one receiving such an email notification (don't trust what is 
written in the cc bar). We are currently 47 people receiving such email, 
see the list at https://github.com/w3c/sdw/watchers.

When you do a reply to an email @reply.github.com ... this email is 
automatically added to the issue thread on github, for example, your 
comment was added to 
https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/309#issuecomment-250083895. Hence, the 
comment from Krystof was not for you but in response to the other 
comments in this issue (#309) that you can read on the github page.

When you encourage people to reply (@githum.com) and to cc the public 
mailing list, this means that a large number of us are receiving each 
email twice, and by replying to one of the two, you're taking the risk 
to have bits of conversation on the mailing list, and bits on github. I 
perfectly understand the rationale of having full conversation archived 
on permanent mailing lists and this is what I loved too with w3c list, 
but if people are using github, and the @reply feature, they should also 
adopt the best practices of writing either on github or in their mailer 
using ideally the markdown syntax and in a github friendly way.
Bet regards.

   Raphaël

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Received on Wednesday, 28 September 2016 07:38:19 UTC