On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 08:58:34AM +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > > - take notes as you go and publish them as widely as possible > > - announce important stuff (for developers) on the dev mailing list > > as early as possible (certainly before linking them on the wiki) > > - use the wiki as a reservoir of information, not as a notification > > board > These are mutually inconsistant. > - We did take notes and we did use the wiki as a repository. We hadn't > even gotten round to the notification part because the hackathon was > less than a day old before somebody noticed. > - On the otherhand you want stuff emailed before we put it on the > wiki. Considering what was on the wiki was a brain dump more than > anything else, I don't think an email would have been any more > coherent.
Sorry I didn't make myself clear. I used the word 'announce' to point to the meeting and meeting subject itself, not the result that obviously should be in the wiki. Just a simple mail : 'I am off to londen where we will brain storm around making the api better. Longstanding ideas thatI want to bring up are rollback, versioning and generally improving the database/api. If there is wireless I'll try to put some notes in the wiki at http://..., but otherwise I'll do a writeup later.' > By your argument it would have been better to have created the wiki > page but not linked it from anywhere. Is that really what you want? What I meant with the linking was the way the page went up, I could only conclude it was a 'fait accompli', since there was no context at all. Especially given the lack of headsup beforehand. That's just rubs the wrong way... cu bart _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
