Re: Old directions in social media.

[Stephen Farrell <[e-mail]>]

Hi Kyle,

On 05/01/2021 17:46, Kyle Rose wrote:
> Again, no one in any WG is required to interact with GitHub to contribute.

I don't think the above is true in practice, at least in some
cases. In one case where I'm implementing a draft I've found
the github issue discussion effectively excludes me from
really being part of the discussion.

Github issue discussions do work fine for many people, and
could work fine for me some other time (e.g. if I and others
involved were in similar TZs and online at similar times),
but my experience is that even with the best will in the
world, the split-discussion or exclusionary effect PHB
complained of can and does happen.

I don't think this is only because the github->mail tooling
is worse than useless (for Rich: few mins ago, having been
offline for an hour or two, I got 40 mails for one repo to
which I'm subscribed;-), I think there are problems with
timezones too (hence this mail).

I don't have a good solution for that. Equally, I'm not
asking that we stop with git or github - I just think we
need to do more work to better take into account that the
github issue discussion workflow is not everyone's workflow.

Cheers,
S.