<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 4:32 AM Rick Moen <<a href="mailto:rick@linuxmafia.com">rick@linuxmafia.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">What I didn't go on to say at the time (as it was out of scope for that<br>
topic), but am glad to say now, is that certainly mailing lists (and<br>
newsgroups) have damning deficiencies for organising and tracking issues.<br>
They're also pretty dreadful as a way to capture knowledge -- for all<br>
the reasons you mention, Luis, among others.<br>
<br>
The usual remedy, in my experience, is to combine that or some<br>
alternative discussion medium (e.g., a Web forum) with a different tool<br>
that is more suited to task. That could be something as simple as wiki<br>
pages maintained by a limited group of people.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>None of these are bad ideas! But doing that, especially in a timely manner that encourages, rather than discourages, participation, needs volunteers. But this list has had no steady new contributors in ages, and even many dedicated long-term contributors (including both current publicly listed moderators!) have decided that there are more important ways to contribute to the movement. So I did not want to suggest anything that required substantial ongoing time commitments. If OSI can pull skilled moderator/"editor"/community manager volunteer time out of the hat, instead or as well as with a tool switch, great.</div><div><br></div><div>Luis<br></div></div></div>