Hi Vagrant, all,
On Tue, 26 May 2026 at 12:43, Vagrant Cascadian <[email protected]> wrote:
> Decision making by those that talk the most and loudest is not a process
> I will find any contentment in and is certainly not consensus.
>
> The asynchronous nature of online communications, while in some ways
> hugely beneficial to processes like this, makes this harder than if we
> were in a room together where ideally only one person would generally be
> speaking at a time and the conversation would not generally be
> continuing at all hours of the day across the globe.
>
> Waking up to an inbox full of walls of text after walls of text,
> followed by walls of text... is difficult to digest.
A quick note for a potential TODO entry. :-)
1. Be sure it’s well hear. And shared!
Well, look: GCD 006 then GCD 007 with an overlap with GCD 006, and
now GCD 008. Wow, that’s a lot of readings! Who is still able to
read a novel over the past few months? ;-)
Although it’s probably an exceptional sequence, it underlines one
issue:
Discussing the overall direction collides with discussing the
wording for a shared understanding of such direction.
It’s two different phases, IMHO, with different level of “debate”,
but in the same time, a fruitful discussion needs a concrete draft.
Maybe something to think about.
2. Discussing with Codeberg PR increases the “wall of text” effect.
It’s hard to know who answers to who, so it increases the mental
overload. A comment about message A might be after several other
messages where in the middle there is a relevant piece of
information used by the very comment. Aside the comments attached
about one specific line that are interleaved with all the others,
and then might become irrelevant or impossible to understand
because the line they commented moved after some document
modifications altering the line numbering. And then we have a
“wall of text” effect – as this paragraph. ;-)
Using Codeberg makes me feel as we are all in the same room and 2
or 3 or 4 people speak in the same time.
Back to point #1, I think Codeberg PR eases one phase and makes the
other a very difficult asynchronous communication.
Somehow, we need to think about some discipline in this area.
For one example, you proposed, IIRC, to “normalize” the Subject
email field. It’s the kind of discipline that would help, IMHO.
Cheers,
simon
