Recent discussion about discussions

Marco Leise Marco.Leise at gmx.de
Tue Mar 18 04:20:49 PDT 2014


Am Wed, 12 Mar 2014 18:11:50 +0000
schrieb "bossfong" <bossfong at posteo.de>:

> As a "new kid", I'm really baffled by by how much discussion in 
> the developers scene is done in mailing lists.
> I strongly believe that mailing-lists are not suited for heated 
> discussions on very specific issues. I even belive it's 
> counter-productive when comparing the discussion flow with modern 
> forum software.
> By modern forum software I mean discussion centric software like 
> disqus[1].
> 
> My appeal is it to switch to a more modern forum software (even 
> though I value really much, that the current webforum is 
> implemented in D).
> 
> Is there anything specific holding us back?
> 
> [1] http://disqus.com

I think the perfect discussion and planning forum is yet to be
written. From the discussions here we can learn what could be
streamlined. For example we don't need repeated threads on the
same topic. Also one article per person should be enough,
with the possibility to later add more statements.

If you want to argue with someone you would do that by writing
a statement and refer to their statement. The same way you
could support (read up vote) someone's statement.

This way nothing would get lost in tons of replies and
we don't have to repeat ourselves because someone didn't read
all of the thread.

The whole thing should be focused on resolving issues or
maturing ideas and it could well be that one topic will have
several sub-topics as different options to solve it. They
could also refer to entirely different topics to create a
dependency. E.g. a satisfactory containers module could rely
on the "allocators" topic and that could have a the precise GC
as a sub-topic (even if precise GC would be a top level topic
on its own).

So that forum would include what we know as DIPs, the list of
language issues and the gist of the discussions on this NG.

:-)

-- 
Marco



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