Hahaha you're right. Gmail sorted the message into the same thread,
despite being moved to a different list. Sorry for the duplication. To
make things easier I'll repost my message here:

> 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/

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