smack-team/smack

maling list for smack user space

jarkkojs opened this issue · 2 comments

jarkkojs commented

I'm going to setup a mailing list for SMACK user space and stop using pull requests. GIT repositories will stay here.

Rationale:

  • Move to traditional git am and git send-email workflow. The simplest and most convenient workflow for everyone.
    • In some ways github workflow is completely broken. One issue does not always map to one commit for example.
  • Get a discussion forum for the project.
  • No more discussion style issues that don't have clear end condition.
  • Easy way to backtrack discussions and put them into timeline.
  • By having only GIT-repository and perhaps wiki inside github and a mailing list, we can much more easily migrate project from github to somewhere else. We only need to upload GIT-repository and move mailing list archive. By continuing to use github issue management system for everything we create a vendor lock-in.
  • Release annoucements.
  • Issues cannot contain attachments.

Listing options for ML here:

jarkkojs commented

I'm going to use 01.org for hosting the mailing list. It fills our requirements and does not cause lock-in (mailing list archive is possible migrate from there). Only thing we must conform from now on to get hosting from there is https://01.org/community/signed-process, which makes sense for us anyway. See my comment in #14.