Re: [Gendispatch] Diversity and Inclusiveness in the IETF

[Fernando Gont <[e-mail]>]

On 25/2/21 17:49, Eric Rescorla wrote:
[...]
>     The rationale is that there are millions of people using GitHub, and
>     if do documents with their toolchain, we will get more feedback from
>     developers than if we tried to draw them into our toolchain.  I
>     didn't realize that was what you were asking me.  This rationale was
>     stated multiple times in the GIT WG.
> 
> FWIW, my impression of the situation is the same as Rich's.

Using the same toolchain, per se, doesn't seem like a rationale (note, 
I'm *not* challenging whether it was effective in your experience, but 
why rather why it was expected ot make a difference).



> I can say 
> with confidence that when TLS decided to adopt Github it was because we 
> had seen that it worked well in H2. With that said, I do think it made 
> it easier for people to get involved, in part because it was easy to 
> offer small changes without subscribing to a list, etc.

Ok, so this seems to imply that part of the thing is that subcribing to 
the mailing-lists is seen as part of the problem.

What about e.g. the archives for the discussions, for future reference? 
Is github.com expected to take on that role?


> It certainly made it easier to accept such contributions.

Certainly this kind of think may make the life of some easier, and the 
life of others more painful. But there *is* an implied tradeoff here. 
It's not a win-win thing.

Thanks,
-- 
Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
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