On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 20:07:34 -0800 Jonathan Marsden <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 01/31/2011 02:44 AM, Phill Whiteside wrote: > > > I've had a couple of people suggest that we put the > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Get%20Involved/WhoWeAre > > page into some sort of order. I can do it by name, IRC nick or language > > (language being my preferred one), ... > > Can we ask what purpose the ordering is expected to serve? In > techie-speak, are there any use cases defined for this database? :) > > To me, language seems a slightly odd choice of primary sort key, > especially since it is primary language only (some of us speak more than > one)... and as long as I can communicate about with someone about > Lubuntu in some language that we both know, I don't care all that much > what their primary language is... I just want to communicate with them. > > Timezone info is on Launchpad anyway, assuming people set it (!), so it > is currently just a click away from the WhoAreWe list. Do we need to > duplicate that info on the wiki, and then update it in two places as we > move around the world? Is the benefit worth the cost? > > Ordering by "seniority" or "date added" as it is now (longest-serving > members at the top, new people add themselves to the end of the list) > also has some value, as that is information which would be lost (well, > except by laboriously looking back through wiki history) if the list > were re-ordered at all. If we re-order, should a "date-added" column be > introduced so that info is not accidentally lost? > > SUMMARY: This seems like a "bike-shedding" kind of a topic :) However, > since you asked, I'd suggest order by "date added" -- in other words, > leave it as it is. But I'm interested in hearing about use cases which > are helped by a different ordering. > I fail to see any reason to sort the list at all and nobody, so far, has given a reason. -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
