[coreboot] coreboot community meeting minutes for February 16, 2017

[tturne at codeaurora.org]

On 2017-02-17 09:55, ron minnich wrote:
> what I've found on u-root and harvey is once we had slack, the mailing
> list dropped to almost zero. Key word being almost, we still use the
> mailing list for archival announcements.
> 
> ron

This is reminiscent of an upstart thread from maybe 5-6 years ago when I 
was at Motorola Mobility.
Gist of the thread was a desire to re-license upstart from GPLv2 to 
GPLv3.
The maintainer wanted to be able to respond directly to anybody who had 
an issue with GPLv3.
I shared that while I had latitude regarding OSS licensed GPLv2, I had 0 
latitude with regard to GPLv3.
The point I made at that time is that Corporate America (fill in your 
favorite country) was "comfortable" with GPLv2.
If upstart had been licensed GPLv3 I wouldn't have been on the mailing 
list or considering its use, regardless of pros/cons of GPLv2 vs GPLv3.

So I put it to the group this way, what portion of the potential 
user-base for Coreboot will be put-off because there isn't a mailing 
list?
If I'm not directly involved in a Coreboot project and I work for some 
nameless entity, I may have the freedom to monitor mailing lists but not 
forums.
Corporations are funny entities, but they are all risk adverse.

How much effort do you want to spend on convincing corporate entities 
that forums are better than mailing lists?
I vote to stay with what is comfortable to both developers and silent 
watchers from the stands.
Cheers,
T.mike

> 
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 9:34 AM Felix Held
> <felix-coreboot at felixheld.de> wrote:
> 
>> Hi!
>> 
>>> * coreboot is evaluating the idea switching from the mailing list
>> to a
>>> forum package.  A poll on this will be posted shortly.
>>> - Switch to reddit?
>>> - Switch to google groups?
>>> - Look for a forum software package that integrates well with
>> the
>>> mailing list.
>>> - Skepticism was expressed about ditching the mailing list.
>> I think dropping the mailing list for some forum would be a really
>> bad
>> idea. The mailing list is organized as a tree and most forums only
>> support linear threads which get confusing very easily. Some forum
>> with
>> tree-structure (the code or reddit is open source, but i'm not sure
>> how
>> difficult it would be deploying an own installation of that) would
>> be ok
>> from that point, but i still see some possible problems in regard to
>> archiving stuff there, since most of the data formats there will
>> probably ways less portable than a mailing list archive.
>> 
>> Regards
>> Felix
>> 
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