Hi David, Your original post seemed to imply that you planned to delete the wiki page. Please don't! :-)
Just because a proposal doesn't generate any practical interest at the time it's put forth doesn't mean that the ideas are invalid or worthless. I think the wiki philosophy implies that something like this should be part of the "permanent record". For the sake of argument, suppose this were a completely worthless and crappy idea. Then people might add comments to the page, saying "This sucks and here is why". The page would remain, and then a year from now when someone makes a similar suggestion in email/wiki/blog/etc., we point to the original and say "it sucked then and it sucks now, see <here>". In the case of your proposal: - I wasn't even aware of it until now, because my bandwidth to follow the wiki and the mailing lists fluctuates; - IMHO, the ideas there have a lot of value (I'll follow up w/ comments on the wiki if/when I have time); - There appear to be several doc restructuring proposals in various stages of... whatever. It may be that your wiki page for whatever reason doesn't get "selected" as the nucleation site for whatever becomes the next generation docs refactoring, assuming that such a thing will take place. But that wouldn't mean that your ideas there couldn't have significant impact on the work. - Just beacuse nobody's biting right now doesn't mean your proposal might not get taken up at some later time. I guess my point is that these ideas don't have a "half-life" (proposals can be obviated, but that's different). If the ideas have value now, they will have value later. So, please don't delete! Best regards, Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
