Given all the above, Łukasz *volunteered* his own time to help setup
Discourse and help everyone to migrate to it so that we can all try
it.
Yes. Thank-you Łukasz! :)
When he announced that we want to try Discourse at the sprints,
out of all people there I remember only Barry asking questions about
email integration. Everybody else including Guido, Brett, Raymond,
Victor, Mariatta, and many others were OK to try Discourse.
I expressed reservations as well, while also recognizing the benefits. I also didn't consider the impact on governance discussions, nor did I think there's be an abrupt switch nor so soon. FWIW, I don't recall being more than lukewarm on the idea (for the sake of the benefits), but didn't express strong objections because I figured that, for me personally, it would mostly be a matter of adjusting (which for me has a real cost in time and mental energy).
As I can
see, Łukasz himself doesn't have any interests in this migration
besides trying to make our communication more enjoyable and welcoming.
Lastly, I understand everybody who likes e-mail and their e-mail
clients. I'm such a person myself. Learning a completely new tool
and using browser to access it isn't easy for me either. But I'm
willing to try to sacrifice some of my convenience in order to see if
the new medium can enable us to have more polite discussions
+1
The catch is that it's an imposition on folks that don't feel exactly the same way.
and if
core developers who don't want to engage now become comfortable to
join us again.
That's definitely worth aiming for. However, there are real limits to how much technology can help what is essentially a people/social problem. :/
-eric