On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Andy Dougherty <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd encourage people to use the mailing list earlier and more often. > Blogs and mailing lists likely reach somewhat different audiences, so both > are good. However, the mailing list is reliably archived, so I wonder if > it would be useful if design disuccsions happened there. I can search > design discussions that happened on the mailing list 10 years ago. Are > blog posts archived with the same degree of long-term stability? Or do > people think that doesn't matter?
The idea that some people are having with respect to blog posts is that they represent a kind of opinion piece. You take the time to write down a raw idea elsewhere, refine it, and bring it to parrot-dev when it's ready for a general developer audience. Nothing "binding" happens in an external location like a blog, in the sense that you can't really bring something up to a meaningful vote elsewhere. An idea that isn't eventually posted to parrot-dev or trac or #ps is just an idle idea. The benefits of the mailing list (wide developer audience, faithful long-term logs) are numerous and should not be ignored. --Andrew Whitworth _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
