[GoLUG] Mailing list, long term.

[Ron]

Steve Litt wrote on 2025-08-17 10:55:

> At this point, allow me to introduce the Litt Principle. After 
> you've found a bunch of "solutions" that don't meet your needs, the 
> time arrives where best use of your time is to roll your own.

Today I Learned - systemd used the Litt Principle.


>> I'd argue that the cooperation of a mailing list was long 
>> obsoleted by a combination of bug/issue trackers.  The random 
>> conversations are cool and all, and also available on any number 
>> of forum-like tools or just IRC-like tools.
> 
> But/issue trackers are junk.

No, they aren't.


> They're where bugs go to die.

I'm not seeing here any correlation between the tools used to track bugs
and the prompt addressing of the bugs.


>> Syeed Ali wrote on 2025-08-17 07:35:
>> 
>> Because you'd have to reproduce the functionality of existing 
>> ticketing systems to make something functionality, and you'd also 
>> reproduce the same problems with the same sorts of bugs and 
>> humans.
> 
> I would NEVER subject people to an automated bug tracker or 
> ticketing system. Impersonal, a hassle when the reporter cannot
> tell the whole story, and it adds yet another ticket system user 
> interface the reporter must learn.

Sy is right and proposing an entire replacement for mailing lists is
quite the ironic instance of "another [...] user interface the [user] 
must learn.



Also:

> You'd need an additional client. The MindMeld client.

You're strenuously against inserting Javascript in your web pages but
also want people to run Python code downloaded from the internet with
full access to their ~ folder and its contents?

I don't get that.

At least JS is heavily sandboxed and can't access my file system.