[Koha-patches] Discussion of development topics, was: Bug 5401: WYSWYG for Koha News

[MJ Ray]

Galen Charlton wrote:
> There is a long standing practice of discussion of individual patches
> on koha-commits, however, so while koha-devel is certainly a valid
> choice for discussing this issue, I do want to point out and remind
> people that some relevant discussion does take place on the
> koha-commits list.

I don't like that practice because:-

1. the list description "Patches submitted to Koha" gives no
indication it occurs and it's different from other projects' -commit
mailing lists;

2. developers have to subscribe to receive all patches even if they're
only interested in their fields of activity and the occasional
discussions, contributing to information overload;

3. I think the patches are carried in only one of the web forum
versions of our discussions http://koha-community.org/support/forums/

4. usually the patches relate to a bug and email discussion isn't
automatically attached to the bug report - I have started work to
address this, but it's still going to have some delay between
the discussion and posting to the bug report, which may mean the
discussion is irrelevant by the time the bug is told;

5. most importantly, many topics are wider than a single patch,
such as this one about what rich editor to adopt.

Can we overcome these problems, or state clearly that
wider-than-one-patch discussions should be on -devel?

Thanks,
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