On 16-04-29 09:22 AM, Richard Eisenberg wrote:
I think the general interplay between mailing lists / wiki pages / Trac issues that GHC uses works well. Specifically:
- Mailing list for routine communication. - Trac tickets / Git issues / Phab something-or-other for discussion on a specific proposal. - Wiki page to present a specific proposal.
Wiki pages and tickets are therefore often linked together, and sometimes a conversation has to move from the mailing list to a ticket (though rarely the other way around).
I specifically vote against using the mailing list to debate well-defined issues that need to be resolved, as it's far too easy to lose signal in the noise and hard to see the thread all in one place.
I fully agree with this point. I also agree that this particular discussion is in happening the right venue.
I'm personally agnostic about the decision between Trac/Github/Phab.
I'm leaning toward GitHub for RFCs myself, mainly because of the fork & pull request paradigm. Collaborative Wiki editing doesn't have such a clear division of responsibilities. The main question is, do we want the RFCs as part of the process, or just the draft standard and discussions thereof?