On Wed, 9 Aug 2017 23:56:35 -0400 Roger Dingledine arma@mit.edu wrote:
But while this approach works well for people whose day job is Tor, the casualty is people whose day job *isn't* Tor. These people show up exactly on the weekends and evenings that now have fewer Tor people around to provide quick responses, community momentum, interaction with core developers, and all of the great things that a free software community needs for health and growth.
Direct them to asynchronous methods of communication like e-mail.
I don't have any quick fixes, but I wanted to raise this issue as a key topic for us to consider as we try to find the right balance between "people can have lives" and "we are responsive to new contributors". We are not being the best that we can be when we have 60-hour gaps on irc, mailing list threads, blog comment follow-ups, etc and those gaps line up exactly with when excited helpful volunteers show up. :)
Are the mailing lists still festering cesspools, or are they worth resubscribing to?
Regards,