Gemini project management

Gemini has its mailing list. End of 2020 Solderpunk established topics like announce, users, spec to be used, so that subscribers could choose to receive less posts. Recently rules got more strict, as I understand, e. g. not allowing to answer posts without being subscribed (which isn't straightforward anyways to get the Reply-To header right, I guess).

Some people understandably prefer not to subscribe to the list, possibly cluttering their inbox or triggering notifications, due to lack of filtering possibilities in their email hosting. Personally I generally do not like the concept of mailing lists for this and other reasons, e. g. enjoying Pull more than Push. It's debatable but I'd consider newsgroup messages Pull whereas email messages Push, but of course it depends on the mode employed by each user in their clients.

For discussions about the spec there is now a repository on GitLab. This seems great for focussing on individual issues. To take part you need to register with GitLab, registration seems to be a hurdle with some browsers, though. Thus, alternatives were suggested, e. g. Codeberg and Sourcehut, with the letter being able to take part also via email only.

There's an inofficial IRC channel, and maybe some others.

Possibly lots of good thoughts scattered among various capsules.

Some notable people involved, without much of any aim for comple...

Solderpunk, BDFL (Benevolent Dictator For Life)

Sean Conner, BDFLA (Benevolent Dictator For Life's Assistant)

Jason McBrayer, Mailing list admin

Personally, I think a community wiki could be good to maintain collaboratively pointers and excerpts organized by topics, e. g. TLS, TOFU, accessibility, gemlog structures, metadata, etc.

-- @ 2021-03-14 Gemini project management