Re: [Gendispatch] Diversity and Inclusiveness in the IETF

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Sat, 27 February 2021 14:54 UTC

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From: Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>
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Subject: Re: [Gendispatch] Diversity and Inclusiveness in the IETF
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Hiya,

I'm generally fine with use of github, and agree with Martin
that we're learning and need to learn more how to handle that
better, esp. wrt managing discussion on mailing lists vs. in
github issues. One point though...

On 27/02/2021 11:00, Martin Thomson wrote:
> And the suggestion that this is, or even might be, inherently
> exclusionary is one I just don't see.
I think it can be exclusionary but I'd not say "inherently"
though. If one has a bunch of people in similar TZs who are
all happy working via github issues then that can very easily
exclude participants who prefer working via the mailing list
who are not in a close enough TZ. I've experienced that when
it results in dozens of github notification emails only a few
of which are human readable, the net result of which is that
the discussion has moved on before excluded participants had
a chance to contribute and/or where it's too much work to
try extract the real discussion from the notification chaff.

I'd say it'd be good to try experiment with ways to bring
the mailing list back into discussion in such situations
whenever there's an "interesting" flurry of github exchanges
that seems to come to resolution amongst those active on
github. It's probably unrealistic for WG chairs to spot all
such events, so would depend on participants themselves who
want to be inclusive like that.

Cheers,
S.