Re: Language Discussion Summaries

2003-02-05 Thread Smylers
Miko O'Sullivan wrote: The idea of discussion summaries has been well received, ... I read this thread over the past couple of days. It's only today that, having thought about it, an objection occurred to me. I've no problem with people summarizing threads, but with this bit: The summaries

Re: Language Discussion Summaries

2003-02-05 Thread Piers Cawley
Smylers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Miko O'Sullivan wrote: The idea of discussion summaries has been well received, ... I read this thread over the past couple of days. It's only today that, having thought about it, an objection occurred to me. I've no problem with people summarizing

AW: Language Discussion Summaries

2003-02-04 Thread Murat Ünalan
to provide a feeling for the weight of opinion, e.g., most people felt this way, some people felt differently, etc. One should trace back who was of what opinion. So my suggestion would be Discussion: Foo feature Want it:Person A, Person B, Person C, Person D Reject it: Person E,

Re: AW: Language Discussion Summaries

2003-02-04 Thread Luke Palmer
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Murat_=DCnalan?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 10:21:11 +0100 to provide a feeling for the weight of opinion, e.g., most people felt this way, some people felt differently, etc. One should trace back who was of what opinion. So my suggestion would be

Re: Language Discussion Summaries

2003-02-04 Thread Miko O'Sullivan
The idea of discussion summaries has been well received, so I'm going to push forward with a few. I invite everyone here to join in. The idea is *not* that Miko writes summaries of every thread. The idea is that the proponent of an idea, or someone very interested in an idea, writes a summary

Re: Language Discussion Summaries

2003-02-04 Thread Buddha Buck
Miko O'Sullivan wrote: The idea of discussion summaries has been well received, so I'm going to push forward with a few. I invite everyone here to join in. The idea is *not* that Miko writes summaries of every thread. The idea is that the proponent of an idea, or someone very interested in an

Re: Language Discussion Summaries

2003-02-04 Thread Miko O'Sullivan
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Buddha Buck wrote: You suggest doing it in HTML. Wouldn't it make more sense to do it in POD, the standard documentation language for Perl? For now, since it's a web site, let's stick to HTML. If somebody just way prefers POD, contact me off list and we'll figure out the

Re: Language Discussion Summaries

2003-02-04 Thread Buddha Buck
Miko O'Sullivan wrote: And how do these differ in concept to the RFC process Perl 6 has already gone through? Wouldn't it make sense, assuming that clean, final presentations of proposed ideas or features in Perl are useful, to re-open the RFC process? RFC's are proposals before the comments.

Re: Language Discussion Summaries

2003-02-04 Thread Miko O'Sullivan
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Buddha Buck wrote: You are aware the that RFCs went through a revision process, and the finalized RFCs that the Design Team are looking at are supposed to include the final form of the idea after discussion, and a summary of what was thought of it? Many of the RFCs

Re: Language Discussion Summaries

2003-02-04 Thread Jonathan Scott Duff
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 10:56:34AM -0500, Buddha Buck wrote: Miko O'Sullivan wrote: And how do these differ in concept to the RFC process Perl 6 has already gone through? Wouldn't it make sense, assuming that clean, final presentations of proposed ideas or features in Perl are useful, to

Re: Language Discussion Summaries

2003-02-04 Thread gregor
: Language Discussion Summaries On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 10:56:34AM -0500, Buddha Buck wrote: Miko O'Sullivan wrote: And how do these differ in concept to the RFC process Perl 6 has already gone through? Wouldn't it make sense, assuming that clean, final presentations of proposed ideas or features

Language Discussion Summaries

2003-02-03 Thread Miko O'Sullivan
SUMMARY Members of the Perl6 Language list produce summaries discussions of proposed features of the Perl6 language. These summaries will improve the signal to noise ratio for Larry and his lieutenants as they try to keep up with feelings in the list. See http://www.idocs.com/perl6/ for the

AW: Language Discussion Summaries

2003-02-03 Thread Murat Ünalan
Thats a great idea. Murat

Re: Language Discussion Summaries

2003-02-03 Thread Allison Randal
Miko O'Sullivan wrote: Therefore, I propose that members of the language list provide summaries of the discussions in the group. Each summary describes a proposed idea feature of the language, then summarizes the list's feelings on the idea. Different opinions will be presented. The

Re: Language Discussion Summaries

2003-02-03 Thread Piers Cawley
Allison Randal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Miko O'Sullivan wrote: Therefore, I propose that members of the language list provide summaries of the discussions in the group. Each summary describes a proposed idea feature of the language, then summarizes the list's feelings on the idea.