On Saturday 13 February 2010 14:28:56 Ximin Luo wrote: > 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.
Agreed. Some interesting ideas are already discussed on the wiki, mostly stuff that we'll do eventually. More should be added, even if we are *NOT* going to do them. > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://osprey.vm.bytemark.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 835 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20100213/ed0c1167/attachment.pgp>
