Re: Any concrete plans after the GDB BoF?

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 14:16:21 +0400
> Cc: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>,
>  Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>,
>  Luis Machado <luis.machado@arm.com>, Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>,
>  Simon Marchi via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org>
> From: Joel Brobecker via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org>
> 
> There are not a whole lot of hosting platforms out there, so my concern
> is that, by making email integration a requirement, you're automatically
> eliminating a number of solutions which could answer your requirements
> just as well, only just differently, and from there, lose some great
> features out there.

Please also take into consideration the other side of this: switching
to a web-based discussions makes participation via email all but
impractical.  People tend to answer short answers without quoting the
context, assuming that all the context is visible in the web form
anyway, and that makes email messages undecipherable.  I follow one
such repository, which uses GitHub, for more than a year, and it is
very frustrating.

So if good support for email is not a requirement, we need to consider
the consequences of basically abandoning email entirely.