Bertrand Delacretaz wrote on 2019-6-3 6:00AM EDT: ...snip... > Shared documents work for me for short-term collaboration on polishing > texts, but for the type of durable information that (I assume) most of > the D&I work requires, wikis work much better for me.
For committee members working on new ideas or collaborating on a draft, I think GSuite is a great idea - when the people actively collaborating prefer using that. For polishing explanatory documents, they are far easier to explain and accept/edit text updates than other tools, especially for those who are not primarily coders. But I expect GSuite to be a starting collaboration area within the active group here, not an area where we're trying to publish documents for broader public review. Once a document is at a final draft (or similar) state, it should move to the website or wiki, for final feedback and to be a public resource. Thus, different tools for different stages of a document's lifecycle. > If people who do the work go for the document style in GSuite, please > at least provide a list of those documents at a stable public URL to > help make them discoverable. *This* is the biggest drawback to GSuite I see, even for committee members otherwise actively contributing. If you don't see the first email that says "Hey, let's edit X over here...", then it's hard to catch up and find the document (not otherwise findable) when you *later* want to join the discussion in a later part of the thread. -- - Shane Member The Apache Software Foundation
