From: "Wladimir J. van der Laan" <laanwj@gmail•com>
To: s7r <s7r@sky-ip•org>
Cc: Andy Schroder <info@AndySchroder•com>,
bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Is SourceForge still trustworthy enough to host this list?
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 11:27:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150611092744.GA2167@amethyst.visucore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <557883A7.7030906@sky-ip.org>
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 09:36:23PM +0300, s7r wrote:
> The mail list is public, so it's not like the data on it is somehow
> sensitive. Sourcefoge is fine, it has a nice web UI where you can browse
> the message and sort/order them as you want, etc.
>
> Why would you want to move to a paid solution? And why would you want
> users to have to pay per message? This is the worst idea ever from my
> point of view. We want to encourage people to join the community, run
> full nodes, ask questions, come with solutions, ideas for improvements
> and so on. Everyone should read and write and contribute as much as
> possible with ideas in debates. You never know who can have bright ideas
> in some contexts.
>
> Bottom line is so far sourceforge handles the mail lists just fine. I
> don't see a single advantage another mail list provider / system could
> offer, except some headache and extra work for migration. The software
> distribution via sourcefoge was cancelled for obvious reasons which I
> fully understand and agree to, but it has nothing to do with the mail
> lists. We have way more important things to brainstorm about.
I completely agree here. I'm not against migration if a much better option comes along, but e.g. paying for another provider sounds like nonsense when sourceforge does this for free (with some minor annoyances - other providers will have their own).
Paying per message is far-fetched, something that could work in economic theory with perfectly spherical people in their perfectly efficient market. In practice the likely result would be a mailing list only used for advertisement and promotion, and technical discussion and release announcements would disappear.
BTW for people that *don't* like sourceforge's web archive UI there are some other options via gmane:
http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.bitcoin.devel
Wladimir
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-10 8:25 xor
2015-06-10 9:35 ` Wladimir J. van der Laan
2015-06-10 16:46 ` Andy Schroder
2015-06-10 18:02 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2015-06-10 18:41 ` Andy Schroder
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2015-06-11 1:46 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2015-06-10 18:28 ` Ivan Brightly
2015-06-10 18:47 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2015-06-10 19:13 ` Ivan Brightly
2015-06-10 18:36 ` s7r
2015-06-10 18:59 ` Andy Schroder
2015-06-10 19:03 ` Peter Todd
2015-06-10 19:12 ` Andy Schroder
2015-06-10 19:20 ` Peter Todd
2015-06-10 19:36 ` Andy Schroder
2015-06-10 19:43 ` Peter Todd
2015-06-10 20:03 ` Andy Schroder
2015-06-10 19:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2015-06-11 9:27 ` Wladimir J. van der Laan [this message]
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