On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 12:00 PM Gerald B. Cox <gbcox@bzb.us> wrote:
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> On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 8:31 AM Chris Adams <linux@cmadams.net> wrote:
>>
>> Once upon a time, R P Herrold <herrold@owlriver.com> said:
>> > This seems very tone deaf and lacking in introspection, Matt
>> >
>> > perhaps by reading the subject line you chose to start this
>> > thread with
>>
>> Matt didn't choose that - that subject was set by Gerald B. Cox.
>>
> As I previously mentioned with all the top-posting, excerpts and hyperbole interjected by others people
> get lost and run with mis-quotes - perhaps Discourse could help with that.  ;-)
>
> Software is a tool for me.  I don't get emotionally attached to it - as some people apparently are.  It's a bit telling that
> many people seem to be afraid that Discourse will be a success.
>

I'm more afraid that it'll be a success with casualties. In other
words, it'll be a failure but not look like one at a glance. Driving
people away and making it harder to keep track of topics of import is
going to necessarily constrain how much people are able and willing to
do. It doesn't get simpler than that. And I have *not* seen a
Discourse instance be successful in that with large teams, much less
large groups like the development groups within Fedora.