Thank you, this is something that has come up several times and is worth addressing.
I tend to agree with your main points here. Google Docs makes a good tool for collaborative editing and commenting, and is great while iterating on a design. However once the iterative process is done, the final doc should be shared (on the dev list and on the Beam site) in a directly-readable format. I assume best intentions and believe that people sometimes simply forget to circle back and share the final design doc (I know I have forgotten to in the past), so we need to make .a stronger effort to track these things. Things that don't require collaborative editing and commenting or things that are short enough to capture in a one-page email should go directly to the dev list. There's really no good need to share such documents in Google Doc form. Again I assume best intentions - I think people often use docs as a tool to write the proposals, and then simply share out the doc when they are done. When docs is not adding value, take a second to copy/paste the proposal into an email instead! Reuven On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 9:11 AM Rafael Fernandez <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I think it's important we all discuss in the community what we want to > do to make sure we communicate effectively. I ask because I've seen > preferences expressed in dev@, and want to make sure we're conscious > about our practices. > > I think we all want discussions to be accessible to all members of the > community, and we need to make sure decisions are recorded in the dev@ > list. If we are not doing this well, we need to flag this. I hope this > is thread allows us to do so. > > Some questions I have: > > - Are we sharing docs that require installing software or forcing > creation of accounts? I don't think this is happening, but let's make > sure this is not the case. > - Are we having technical discussions and collaborating in tools such > as Google Docs without circling back to record decisions in the dev > list? If so, let' try our best to circle back to the dev list. > - Are we sharing trivially short information in doc form when an email > would suffice? If so, we can try our best to avoid that. Save a Beamer > a click and a new tab! :) > > Thoughts? > r >
