On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Risker <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2009/6/27 stevertigo <[email protected]> > > 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. > > 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 saith: "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" Hm. Strikes me that a public group can critique things quite "honestly but fairly" also. I mean, that's how this list works isn't it? Otherwise I would never submit ideas here at all. Risker spoketh: "Strikes me that happens all the time, and doesn't necessarily have to involve foundation-related lists but could be any group of people." Hm. Don't you mean "any closed group of people"? I mean, I'm inferring this from the context of our conversation. If, in your statement you imply, without explicitly saying so, a change in our conversational context from "closed groups" to "any groups," and I thus just did not notice this change, please accept this is a kind of backhanded apology. -Stevertigo _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
