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/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ SharpOS-Developers mailing list SharpOS-Developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sharpos-developers