i agree; it's unreasonable to expect someone to do text-search on the mailing list archives, especially for complicated new technical ideas that could be expressed in thousands of different ways.
definitely add a section in the wiki. "ideas archive" or something. X On 02/13/2010 02:09 PM, Cl?ment Vollet wrote: > I quote the FAQ: > > I have this great idea.... > Good! First step: read the mailing list archives. Odds are good that someone > else had the same idea and discussed it with the group. Either a flaw was > found in the idea, or perhaps it was decided to postpone implementing the > idea > until later. Some examples of ideas already discussed are storing information > by content hash, key redirection, signed keys/data, use of UDP, server > discovery, URLs, document versioning, and others. If you don't see the idea > discussed in the archives, by all means bring it up in the appropriate > mailing > list. > > This approach has some drawbacks: > - you can't be sure it hasn't be discussed in the mailing list because > searching isn't 100% reliable > - it is a big step, and can freak some potential contributors > > Maybe, we could, from now one, when a idea is discussed, and accepted or > rejected, put it in the wiki, under the right category, with the reasons. > This way, a potential contributor is sure his idea has been discussed (or > not), and it is really easy to find that out. > > I know this method has a major drawback : a lot of ideas has already been > discussed, and if we don't ask the user to read the archives, some may > present > an already discussed idea. > But I don't think that's a problem, since now, I don't think the user bother > to search at all, or very quickly. > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://osprey.vm.bytemark.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
