[SeasonOfDocs] Email list research

[Sanket Totewar]

Sorry guys for the delay in reply.

I have some interesting perspective from some peeps who've used Gmail lists
and GitHub discussions.

Can't share their names but they have all used private repos (no public
ones) and have had GitHub organizations with teams in them.

P1: GitHub discussions can go too deep if your team is spread across the
world so we started using them but moved to slack and then only added
decisions as meeting notes in Confluence.

P2: I've tried using them but didn't like the style as it does not feel
real-time. So we have calls instead.

P3: GitHub discussions might be great for open source projects but were not
relevant to ours as we had private meetings.

P4: Emails are the best as it is so easy to search through them but of
course you need to know what you are searching for. Google does a great job
here.

P5: I've not seen any open source project use GitHub team discussions.

P6: Love GitHub Discussions. They are very helpful for international teams.

P7: GitHub discussions allow inline commenting and give easy access to
links in GitHub PRs in addition to the comments inside PRs, they form a
good package.




On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 8:18 PM Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Sanket, are you around and noticing emails? At our last meeting, we
> identified setting up an email list as our number 2 priority.
>
> Jo, you were also looking into this and had some ideas. How far did you
> get before heading on leave last week?
>
> How should we move forward?
>
> Cheers, Cameron
> On 10/8/19 8:44 am, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>
> Hi Sanket, did your research into email list options identify anything
> worth passing on?
>
> Cheers, Cameron
> On 1/8/19 7:32 am, Sanket Totewar wrote:
>
> Sounds good. I have meetings with my internal support teams that have used
> Google Groups and a bunch of developers that have explored GitHub
> discussions so I'll share their feedback in a few days.
>
> On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 1:25 AM Jo Cook <jo.k.cook at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I've been doing a little more digging into GitHub Discussions.
>>
>> Good:
>>
>> * hosted and free (at the moment)
>> * you can align them with organisational teams, which would mean we could
>> have one list for website discussion, another one for PSC etc.
>> * definitely searchable, but it's a little early to tell how manageable
>> they are going to be with a large number of messages.
>> * not needing any additional logins- people helping with the project will
>> need a github login anyway so we're not asking them to sign up to anything
>> extra
>>
>>
>> Bad things:
>> * There's also no explicit statement on archiving them, potentially they
>> will survive as long as the organisation does.
>> * They might transition to being a paid-for function at some point
>>
>> I'm not wedded to them, but it appeals to my sense of neatness to keep
>> everything together :-)
>>
>> Jo
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 1:32 PM Cameron Shorter <
>> cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 31/7/19 7:21 pm, Jo Cook wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>    -
>>>
>>>    Discussions- currently using an osgeo mailing list, requirement is
>>>    for hosted (let’s not maintain a server). Github discussions- not clear on
>>>    archiving, google groups- probably OK but how long are things archived?
>>>    Let’s discuss via email. ACTION: SANKET to do some research and start email
>>>    thread discussing requirements.
>>>
>>> Sanket, expanding on what I think requirements are:
>>>
>>> * For long term sustainability it is important to keep things as simple
>>> and low maintenance as possible.
>>>
>>> * We want conversations archived and searchable (by google is ok). Eg:
>>> https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/seasonofdocs/2019-July/thread.html
>>>
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