From 1d885995ff2a8e7dc47504e5be60888d3dc06aa6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Wong Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 19:58:24 +0000 Subject: design_notes: with philosophy --- Documentation/design_notes.txt | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/design_notes.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/design_notes.txt b/Documentation/design_notes.txt index 8ec1d369..a5c0bba8 100644 --- a/Documentation/design_notes.txt +++ b/Documentation/design_notes.txt @@ -1,6 +1,18 @@ Design notes and philosophy --------------------------- +public-inbox spawned around some basic ideas +-------------------------------------------- + +* Public, non-real-time, archivable communication is essential to + Free and Open Source software development. + +* Contributing to Free and Open Source projects should not require the + use of non-Free/non-Open Source services or software. + +* Graphical user interfaces should not be required for text-based + communication. + Challenges to running normal mailing lists ------------------------------------------ 1) spam @@ -61,6 +73,12 @@ Why email? public-inbox host becomes unavailable, users may still directly email each other (or Cc: lists for related/dependent projects). +Notes +----- + +* Expose Message-Id in HTML views to encourage replies from drive-by + contributors + Copyright --------- Copyright 2013, Eric Wong and all contributors. -- cgit v1.2.3-24-ge0c7