Re: Collaborating on EXSLT

I have a small question. What about having a separate mailing list for
each subtopic or function? A user register once to be able to post to
any of these lists.  Once registered, she can subscribe to any of the
lists. Many emails providers support functionality for filtering and
sorting the emails into directories. This will be left to the user, and
by having a different mailing list for each topic, this filtering can be
easily configured. On the other hand it enables anyone to track issues
easily and follow up.



Uche Ogbuji wrote:
> Florent Georges wrote:
>   
>> Michael Kay wrote:
>>
>>   Hi,
>>
>>     
>>> I would encourage having a "talk" page for each function, even
>>> stable ones, with access granted as widely as possible, and
>>> encouraging discussion of specific functions to take place on the
>>> Wiki rather than the mailing list. I think it's easier to
>>> disentangle threads that way and work out whether consensus has
>>> been reached; it makes it easy to check the history of the
>>> discussion and see its current state, as well as avoiding
>>> repeated discussion of the same issues.
>>>       
>>   I wonder what this way of communicating will actually look like.
>> For what I've seen in existing wikis, those pages tend to be a
>> mess, and contributors just forget to follow the page after a while
>> (problem of "pop"-style media.)  It would be useful to have such a
>> "talk" page where editors (or even any contributor) would summarize
>> discussions as they occur on the mailing list, copy & past
>> interesting emails or link to the archives.
>>
>>   But using the wiki directly to communicate sounds a bit like a
>> misuse.
>>     
>
> Yeah, I must admit my experience with wiki discussion pages has been
> pretty painful.  Whether Wikipedia, or the original Pie/Atom wiki, which
> we were only too happy to abandon once IETF gave us a mailing list, etc.
>
> But Mike does have a point that it would be nice to have a way to keep
> track of discussion threads in a less entangled way from the full list
> archives.
>
> I wonder if technology could help here.  We could have a script read
> mailing list messages for mentions of specific EXSLT extension, and have
> an auto-updated page with links to relevant messages for each extension?
>
> Just a wild idea.
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