As far as I know, it wasn't an announcement, it was sending up a trial balloon amongst a known group who was likely to critique it honestly but fairly, before taking it public. Strikes me that happens all the time, and doesn't necessarily have to involve foundation-related lists but could be any group of people.
Risker 2009/6/27 stevertigo <[email protected]> > Risker wrote: > > > It's on the arbcom-L private mailing list, I suspect, Steve. A link won't > >> be > >> possible, sorry. > >> > > > Yes I knew that. I was simply making an obverse point about the mis-usage > of > > > > "private" lists for sweeping public project announcements. > > > > In any case, I try to avoid closed-source technology wherever I can. > > -Stevertigo > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
