Re: IM dev discussions?

[Ihor Radchenko]

Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> writes:

> Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Maybe we can nicely ask moderators/active users of reddit/SO to redirect
>> people to Org ML when appropriate? Similar to our current effort with
>> contributor stewards.
>
> That's a very good idea!
>
> If these contributor stewards agree, we can even advertise their role
> on https://orgmode.org/worg/org-maintenance.html

Agree.

Which social website do you have in mind?

I can ask @alphapapa from /r/orgmode.

I guess we can also ask people hanging out on Doom discord and
discourse.

Maybe also Org roam people. They have discourse.

>> May we set a single account on GitHub and link it to Org ML so that
>> people can @mention Org team on GitHub, and we automatically get the
>> email directly to Org ML?
>
> I'm against it: it will make it easier for Org ecosystem maintainers
> on GitHub to send notifications to the Org ML without joining it while
> probably forcing Org maintainers on the ML to follow-up discussions on
> GitHub.  That's not a positive outcome.

Fair point. GitHub email never displays comment edits, and I am not sure
how reliable is Github-to-email bridge for complex interactions.

> What I suggest instead to do is to document GitHub accounts of Org
> core maintainers on worg/org-maintenance.org for those who have one.

This sounds reasonable.

> This way maintainers of Org libraries on GitHub will know they can @
> these accounts in their issues.  And it will stay the responsability
> of Org core maintainers to decide how to deal with these issues.
>
> For some of them, it will just lead to a reply on the issue (as when
> Org maintainers contribute to non-official Org spaces, like the Doom
> or spacemacs discord servers); for issues that are of importance for
> Org core development, we should suggest them to send an email to the
> list.

I am unsure how visible this kind of information will be for new
third-party package maintainers.

Should we add some information to Appendix A Hacking section of the
manual? (something along the lines that one may contact Org maintainers
in other media like IRC, Matrix, etc and then link to worg/org-maintenance.org)

Or maybe have a section in worg/org-contribute.org? An extension to
"Write add-ons" item.

And, of course, we need to announce this to the existing maintainers.
Upcoming Emacsconf may be a good opportunity.

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