Hi, Mark, Ok, points taken. I'll put it back up. Hope to see yours (and other's) comments.
Cheers, Dave > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Lundquist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 8 January 2005 4:26 > To: [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Withdrawl of poposal: ExtremeDocumentationOverhaul > > > > 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
