- From: Mike Schinkel <mikeschinkel@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:42:00 -0400
- To: "'Charles McCathieNevile'" <chaals@opera.com>
- Cc: <public-html@w3.org>
Charles McCathieNevile wrote: > John Joseph Bachir wrote: > > Mike Schinkel wrote: > > > ... or someone else be appointed to identify and > > > manage a list of issues. This would allos discussions > > > on identified issues would need to have those issue > > > name/numbers in the subject... > > > > > Sounds an awful lot like a web forum. If the list is > > going to be so overwhelmingly busy, with segmented (in > > a good way) sub-discussions, then a web forum would be > > very appropriate. However I think trying to recreate > > that structure on the email list will prove unwieldy > > and inefficient. For example, consider the turnaround > > time required to suggest and create a new numbered > > issue. > > > W3C has some useful tools that work with mailing lists > and IRC, and which it is worth learning about. > > For this case, the one that rocks is Tracker/trackbot - > created by Dean Jackson. It allows creating an issue with > a name, to which it gives a number. It reads the mailing > list, and any time it sees ISSUE-123 then the archived > version of that email is added to the list of emails on > the topic. If you invite trackbot to the IRC channel, it > also notes where in the minutes ISSUE-123 was discussed. > > (It does the same thing with action items, so you can > track them. And you can see it at work for the WebAPI > group at http://www.w3.org/2006/webapi/track/ which I > recommend for members of this group). Thanks for explaining the tools. So do you see my proposal as being something that can use this tools for this list? -- -Mike Schinkel http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blogs/ http://www.welldesignedurls.org http://atlanta-web.org - http://t.oolicio.us
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