[ghc-steering-committee] Procedural change vote

[Simon Peyton Jones]

|  Because people are much better at providing context in email and my mail
|  reader keeps track of what I have read and what I haven’t read yet.

Yes, those are good points. Specifically, perhaps they'd be good suggestions for improving GitHub (or GitLab)'s interface.

Simon

|  -----Original Message-----
|  From: Manuel M T Chakravarty <chak at justtesting.org>
|  Sent: 06 May 2019 20:59
|  To: Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com>
|  Cc: Eric Seidel <eric at seidel.io>; ghc-steering-committee at haskell.org;
|  Joachim Breitner <mail at joachim-breitner.de>
|  Subject: Re: [ghc-steering-committee] Procedural change vote
|  
|  > Am 06.05.2019 um 18:25 schrieb Simon Peyton Jones
|  <simonpj at microsoft.com>:
|  >
|  > | I like GitHub for code, but for the discussion we are having, I
|  > | don’t think the UI is really made for that.
|  >
|  > Why do you think email is better?
|  
|  Because people are much better at providing context in email and my mail
|  reader keeps track of what I have read and what I haven’t read yet.
|  
|  It is a lot harder to see on GitHub what comment another comment is
|  referring to.
|  
|  >  I suppose that each email often includes a complete copy of the thread,
|  which seems useful, if wasteful.  Is it that that makes the difference for
|  you?
|  
|  I haven’t quoted everything, but just the bits I am responding to.
|  
|  GitHub allows you to quote, too, but you need to explicitly do it (by
|  copying text and adding markup or by highlighting it and pressing ’r’).
|  People often don’t do that, but in email it is the default and done by
|  your email reader.
|  
|  Manuel