On Feb 16, 2014 4:01 PM, "Steven Walling" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Greg Grossmeier <[email protected]> wrote: > > > See also: The general rule among many engineering departments at WMF is > > "If it didn't happen on the list (or somewhere similarly public and > > indexable) it didn't happen." > > > > Wikitech is great for discussing things with a wider audience especially > where we need to seek opinions of developers outside the staff. But most > decisions people make are documented on a wiki, Bugzilla, and/or their > preferred project management tool. A mailing list is quite bad at reaching > a consensus decision on something, as evidenced by the fact that we hold > RFCs on a wiki, and not here. > > No one is suggesting that we should make all decisions via > teleconferencing.
And I'm not saying the opposite. I'm just referring to the communication of those decisions (see subject ;)). The end reasoning and decision part (at least). Tangentially, I very much disagree with the sentiment that email = bad for group discussion. There are so many counter examples where it is good for discussion, and notably in technical discussions where details/quoting is important. End rant :) Greg (from phone) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
