> My post really only targets the Analytics Development team (see last
email's greeting).

*face palm*  Woops.  Thanks for answering my questions anyway.  :)


On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 4:17 AM, Christian Aistleitner <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Aaron,
>
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 01:31:58PM -0500, Aaron Halfaker wrote:
> > I don't know what type of things you are referring to.  Should we manage
> > tasks on this list or can they stay in mingle/trello?
>
> Keep Trello!
> Keep Mingle! well ... :-D
>
> But seriously, keep doing whatever you used to do, and using whatever
> tools that you used to use. My post really only targets the Analytics
> Development team (see last email's greeting). That's the place where
> it seemed to me that we had general agreement about the policy. I am
> not trying to mess with the Research & Data team. So feel free to
> ignore :-)
>
> > [...], but there should be a
> > definition of what is relevant and what is not. Could you help me
> > understand with a few examples?
>
> I hope that common sense will lead us along the path :-)
> Of course Apache's use of it, as requirement to bring technical
> discussions/decisions to the list, serves as example.
>
> So assume we would have a Hangout meeting tomorrow, where we would
> decide to ditch Hadoop and reimplement it because of NIH. That'd be
> "ok" only if we bring the decision and discussion to the list.
>
> If Toby has new information about the level of privacy we have to
> employ around Wikipedia Zero data, it is fine if he tells the
> Development team in a Hangout. But it did not "happen" until he posted
> it to a list.
>
> Thereby, it is assured that we have decisions and discussions around it
> * visible,
> * archived, and
> * addressable via an URL.
>
> A different example is that the Development recently discussed doing a
> spike around how to best consume the request stream's compressed json
> in Hadoop through Pig. That's not a decision per se, but I'd hope
> (others might disagree :-) ) that it will lead to a short post to this
> list, so others can see the outcome and later revisit, refer to or use
> it.
>
> On the other end, obviously my nice's next birthday, or me switching
> from Emacs to Vi, or minor things like whether or not we use
> constructor injection or setter injection for $RANDOM_CLASS_X would
> not not require mails to the list under normal circumstances from my
> point of view.
>
> As you directly asked about whether or not one should manage tasks on
> this list; I hope we do not need to. From my point of view, that would
> increase noise a lot. But in a condensed manner that would totally
> make sense to me. Like Toby sent out a "Sprint Planning Update" some
> days ago, just like Diederik used to do. That looked good to me.
>
> Have fun,
> Christian
>
>
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