- From: Mike Schinkel <w3c-lists@mikeschinkel.com>
- Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 16:20:02 -0400
- To: public-html@w3.org
Dan Connolly wrote: > On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 03:25 -0400, Mike Schinkel wrote: > >> Marcos Caceres wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> Can people please name things properly on the Wiki... naming pages >>> "DeclWebFormExpr04" is unhelpful. And please stop assigning numbers >>> to issues as it makes no sense to do so. >>> Kind regards, >>> >> To the contrary; it is very helpful. I am the one doing the assignment >> of numbers. I followed the lead of the TAG from their issue list.[1]. >> > Issue serial numbers suggest there's some mechanism that serializes > creation of issues. In the TAG, the charter says a majority-rule > decision is required to create an issue; that's the source of the > serial numbers. > > A wiki doesn't naturally serialize creation of topics. (It could > be used that way, but it would be a stretch.) So I agree that if > ESW wiki topics are to be used to capture issues, they should not > have numbers. Note that ESW wiki topics do not belong > to this Working Group; they belong to the community at large. > > To the extent we want to share write-access to our materials with > the world, it makes sense to use the ESW wiki, though it remains > to be seen how this interacts with email, our primary > communications mechanism. > > Wiki topics naturally work well for capturing conventional wisdom. > For topics that are the subject of debate, a wiki can work, but > it involves more discipline and training than I'm interested in. > > This group has not delegated creation of issues to any wiki process; > I'm pretty sure it's not a good idea to let anyone in the world > add to our issues list. > Dan, you have the final word. Given this, I'll drop my updating of the wiki as without your support and a coordinated effort it won't have the benefits I envisioned. > I'm still maintaining an issues list. > http://www.w3.org/html/wg/il16 > It doesn't include everything that anyone has sent mail about, > but I suggest that this is a feature, not a bug. > That said, I was trying to create a mechanism that would make it possible to easily find most discussions on a given topic. Is there not some standard some way we can use to tie emails back to the list of issues so that when searching for discussions on a topic it doesn't turn into a year long research project? -- -Mike Schinkel http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blogs/ http://www.welldesignedurls.org http://atlanta-web.org - http://t.oolicio.us
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