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On 2/28/12 7:22 PM, Juha Manninen wrote:
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<div class="gmail_quote">2012/2/28 Rich Saunders <span dir="ltr"><<a
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">Another idea is for
someone to summarize a lengthy exchange in a mailing list.
The summary would be something along the lines of: "The idea
of X has been brought up and discussed at length. There
appear to be 3 options for moving forward. A would be least
disruptive. B would take the most work but would produce the
ideal result. C would be an alternative to B but would take
the project in a whole new direction. The core team would
like to pursue B but needs Y or Z to be done first. Anyone
who wants to pursue C should know their efforts will be
difficult to integrate in the future. See the following
wiki page for our current plans in this area."<br>
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A summary like to would certainly help me understand where
we are on the documentation issues that have been discussed
in the past week or so.<br>
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The value of it is in helping everyone understand that the
core team is paying attention to the issues that are brought
up and that steady progress is being made (even if it only
discussing an issue and placing it properly in the context
of the developmental plan).<br>
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Rich, who would make that summary? I hope you don't mean the core
developers would have to make it, in addition of using all their
available time creating code and documentation.<br>
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Of course, the core developers would not be expected to do it unless
they chose to. I see it as a project management task. <br>
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A right attitude from you would be to offer yourself to make such
summary.<br>
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I'm considering it. If productive exchanges like this project
management thread continue I might just start doing it. We'll see
how it goes.<br>
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