[BioRuby] [pjotr.prins at gmail.com: Revitalizing SciRuby]

[Peter Cock]

Yes, and being realistic either a forum or discussion mailing list would
be on paid hosting - as probably will be our broadcasting/announcement
mailing lists:

https://www.open-bio.org/2023/03/22/mailing-lists-to-paid-hosting/

I too am content with email, but we seem to be a minority Pjotr - all the
Open-Bio project mailing lists have been come very quiet - dramatically
so going back over the years.

I'm enjoying Mastodon [*], and have tried Matrix - not sure either is going
to come close to the historic public mailing list archives as a record of
past discussions though? Slack certainly fails that test.

Peter

[*] Currently https://fediscience.org/@pjacock if anyone is looking for me there

On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 6:16 PM Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public14 at thebird.nl> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 02:54:04PM +0000, Fields, Christopher J wrote:
> > Hi all, I believe the various Bio* mail lists are all active and still hosted by OBF, but very low traffic.  We just discussed in the OBF Board meeting whether it would be better to move to a forum-based platform for discussions (discourse or biostars, the latter which is used by the Bioconductor community).  It would be great to have some feedback from Bioruby developers on this.
>
> Forums are centralised. Someone has to run them.
>
> Mastodon and/or matrix could work. Both are federated, so we are not
> delivered to single companies.
>
> Even so, I personally like E-mail -- it is persistent, less intrusive
> and filters are useful -- and use that as a TODO list. But it looks
> like I am becoming an outlier. There is also public inbox
>
> https://lwn.net/Articles/748184/
>
> I kinda like it, as it is easy to deploy - essentially a git repo -
> and it is in line with our non-github (but git-based) issue tracker
>
> https://issues.genenetwork.org/
>
> So, yes, we could move on and away from MLs and the github issue
> tracker(s). Maybe public inbox could work - notifying mastodon
> and/or matrix.
>
> Pj.
>
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