On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Manu Sporny <mspo...@digitalbazaar.com> wrote:
> Could you please explain why it's better to discourage per-issue threads > on the mailing list and instead direct people to the wiki? Why are we > discouraging one form of recorded communication over another? I have written up a page that explains some of the reasons behind the microformats community's preference for using the wiki instead of email: http://microformats.org/wiki/wiki-better-than-email On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Manu Sporny <mspo...@digitalbazaar.com> wrote: > Tantek Celik wrote: >> Please follow-up on the wiki and also one email announcing a batch >> of new issues is sufficient. Let's try to keep emails to a minimum >> for notification only, and capture discussion/iteration on the wiki. > > The reason I put each of these in a separate e-mail is to separate > issues out into manage-able threads of discussion. I do admit that it's > a personal preference, but threaded discussion seems to be a fairly > accepted method of working through spec issues. Email-centric threaded discussion is fairly accepted method in many other standards communities/organizations (W3C, IETF). Per http://microformats.org/wiki/wiki-better-than-email#tradition , this has been different in the microformats community from the start of microformats, and deliberately so. Thanks, Tantek _______________________________________________ microformats-new mailing list microformats-new@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-new