w9ya wrote: > No comments on wikis. Or maybe better put; I had better not waste everyones > time on my impressions of wikis. In any event; I think the timetable *needs* > to reiterated on the mailing list as "milestones" approach as stuff on a wiki > is easily "missed".
I think that the Wiki serves an important role in presenting information that might normally be drowned out on the list. I've just spent an entire night making it so that it's easier to find the information without resorting to a search, expressly so people can quickly get to key info from the front page. I think it's unreasonable to expect the level of redundancy on the mailing list that you're asking for. What happens when someone subscribes after the crucial announcement? What about me, missing half a day's messages due to some unexplained problem? What makes you sure that some key announcement will be seen by everyone? The sheer fact that you missed the information about OO.o being included in RC2 says to me that you, like anyone else, can easily miss the one announcement that matters to them. Then we're back to square one with the complaints... If you don't like the Wiki, fine. But it was implemented as a solution to precisely the problem that you bring up. It's unreasonable to dismiss that solution and still complain that information isn't being conveyed (when it is) just because it's not in the format you want. - John P.S. Your e-mail settings override the ability to reply to the list, instead of just to you. You may want consider changing them, or else the list will miss some of the very information that you say it should have.
