Unified internal communications channel
Nate Graham
nate at kde.org
Thu Dec 7 15:15:36 GMT 2023
Hello everyone,
There have been a couple instances of drama this week caused by
decisions being made without some of the relevant stakeholders knowing
about them. In all cases, the decisions were announced, but either not
announced in the places where all the stakeholders saw it, or not all
stakeholders were able to notice the announcement in a place where they
do generally pay attention.
It makes me think that maybe the KDE development community has grown so
large that we can't reasonably expect everyone to be paying attention to
everything, or for everyone with something to announce to know exactly
where the people who need to know it expect to find those messages.
So perhaps this could be addressed at the source by creating a single
unified "internal announcements" place that everyone can pay attention
to without fear of being spammed with too many messages. In theory the
kde-devel mailing list is one such place, but it's got more than just
announcements, and also mailing lists aren't very accessible for a lot
of newer contributors who didn't grow up with them.
What I'm proposing is some kind of place that *only* has internal
announcements and is very log signal-to-noise such that we can
fearlessly recommend that *everybody* subscribe to it. In addition,
ideally those who want to subscribe via mailing list could do so, but
its content would automatically appear in other places too, such as
discuss.kde.org and an invent.kde.org project. That way people can
subscribe by whatever means is most comfortable to them.
Thoughts?
Nate
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