[SciPy-Dev] Unpacking the mailing list: Discourse, Slack = Mailing list

[Tyler Reddy]

Just keep the discourse stuff for onboarding/mentoring/informal stuff and
mailing list for "votes"/substantive decisions IMO.

On Thu, 20 May 2021 at 08:46, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 3:37 PM Tyler Reddy <tyler.je.reddy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > -1 for sunsetting the mailing list
> > +1 for having any alternative solutions only "informal--" if people want
> to go there and interact with newcomers that's fine IMO, but I'd strongly
> prefer not to have more things/technologies/channels to monitor for
> decision making
>
> Speaking as a dinosaur - like Matti - I personally prefer email, but I
> would say that, despite reservations, my experience with Discourse
> hasn't been too bad.   You can ask it to send emails, so you don't
> have to monitor it separately.  I have heard Eric L's comment from
> others, about greater traffic from Discourse than using email.  When I
> went to check for one project, the traffic looked to be of reasonable
> quality.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew
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