[kde-guidelines] Hi! Introduction and short notes about the Plasma Sprint

[Àlex Fiestas]

On Friday 17 January 2014 23:03:47 Jens Reuterberg wrote:
> But I hate mailing lists. I didn't even like them back in 1998 when they
> where relevant ;)
> 
> Ok ok point taken ... the thing is though that as effective as a mailing
> list can be to devs it can also be a hindrance to inclusiveness. Forums are
> by their very nature inclusive because you can see the activity without
> having to join up - what ever is written down demands no user action to be
> gained AND that makes any answer easier to access meaning the
> forums becomes a wiki of answers even for people not connected to the
> issue.
> 
> Take the Krita subforum in the KDE forums as an example - or if you
> google Openbox of Conkys how many times you turn up in the #! forums.
> What it does is creating user interaction and by using some fine-grain
> control you can make a subforum for devs or a "from the mailing list"
> subforum so devs don't even have to go inside the forum. :)

You can keep the mailist then only for designers-developers communication.

The reason why we like mailing list is just because they integrate with our 
email workflow.