Confusion ensued when Techguy noted that this thread _had_ been moved
to the list already. It turns out Gmail put it in the same thread
since it was forwarded.. Sorry, ignore this thread. :-\

On 9/6/07, William Lahti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 9/5/07, William Lahti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > As originally posted by Sander van Rossen:
> >
> > What is exactly the difference between the two wiki pages "wanton
> > desires" and "blue sky dreams"?
>
> Well, the differentiation was there because there was a lot of stuff
> to change in X11, but not enough manpower to do it all. The Wanton
> Desires was a good way for someone to grab a project that wouldn't
> need a lot of architectural consideration or deep changes to the
> system. In that way it is still pretty viable, so the Wanton Desires
> might be a good place for ideas for tools, new APIs and features in
> the kernel, extraneous AOT functionality (conditional compilation?)
> etc. But the blue sky dreams page is for stuff that is very
> _different_. Stuff that probably will change radically before we
> implement it (if at all). Stuff that touches on deep parts of the
> system and requires large changes. Or for ideas which are relatively
> far away (which is a lot of them).
>
> > The "wanton desires" page has the following text:
> > "This page is here for us to gather and comment on ideas which are
> > reasonably doable"
> > This kind of implies a process in which ideas from the "blue sky
> > ideas" are promoted to "wanton desires"
>
> I was in a rush, and that text is terrible.
>
> > Should we formalize this process?
> > Wouldn't an idea automatically turn up in some sort of plan page in
> > the documentation section if and when we decide to use it?
> > So maybe it would make sense to just combine the two pages?
> > I noticed that the documentation part of the wiki page was being written.
> > It might be a good time to clean up the wiki so we can get rid of that
> > "under construction" at the start page.
>
> The WD/BSD pages are what comes before a plan (but only for largish
> stuff, plans might be spawned by discussion or something too). It's a
> good way to present ideas while not feeling like you're disturbing
> development by posting on the devel list. It's a good way to jot down
> ideas that you'd like to do but don't have time, for bored people to
> come and enjoy-- maybe implement.
>
> --
> fury
>
> long name: William Lahti
> handle :: fury
> freenode :: xfury
> blog :: http://xfurious.blogspot.com/
>


-- 
fury

long name: William Lahti
handle :: fury
freenode :: xfury
blog :: http://xfurious.blogspot.com/

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