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All open source projects should offer an IRC channel, mailing lists and a forum! And almost all do. Even newer ones like Elixir that started with Slack have no

by frik 11y ago

All open source projects should offer an IRC channel, mailing lists and a forum! And almost all do. Even newer ones like Elixir that started with Slack have now a mailing list and an IRC channel.

JoshTriplett 11y ago
> mailing lists and a forum Ideally those can be the same thing; see the current Mailman interface, or Discourse, both of which can provide a forum-like interface to a mailing list.
- aggieben 11y ago
  +1 for discourse
- frik 11y ago
  Discourse is a forum, with a modern UI. Forums are more for new and normal users/fans of open source projects. Technical discussions happen over IRC. And even more longer insightful technical discussions (often over several days) happen on mailing lists.
aggieben 11y ago
Mailing lists are the only thing worse than IRC. Seriously.
cballard 11y ago
This is true for large open-source projects but there are plenty of µframeworks and tiny Unix-philosophy-following tools that don't need more than a Git(hub|lab) repository with the issue tracker enabled.