Hello Aymeric -- Yes indeed, I misunderstood. Thank you for lining things out for me. Loosely, the group I am talking about is the group of a couple thousand who completed that survey in the first 48 hours. It would be great to know why a lot of those ~2000 folks feel so stongly and positive about the documentation. I don't know how to organize this. With all due respect, I was hoping the mechanism you outlined could kick-in to facillitate this.
As for other thread in my proposal <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_analysis>, the way I would approach this would be on a foundation of the mass media research of Phillip Palmgreen with 'uses and gratification' theory which is rooted deeply in Fishbein's 'expectancy-value' theory with perhaps some Charles Osgood thrown in for good measure. All this stuff is from the eighty's -- possibly somewhat out-of-date. So, you are a mathematician, huh? How are your statistics? And this might be some kind of non sequitur, but in any case, I looked at the text files from GitHub that comprise our published documentation. I am attaching two files. One is a list of words used 50 or more times. I don't know how words like 'youll' made it in there, but a lot of these words are good candidates for the Glossary. Also, enclosed is another file listing the file sources for these words. Thanks again, On Saturday, January 2, 2016 at 4:51:15 AM UTC-5, Aymeric Augustin wrote: > > On 2 janv. 2016, at 05:48, Doug Epling <wmdoug...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > First is, has been, a discussion open for spectators but limited > participants to core members. Asside from its subject pertaining current > state and future path, all other details are above my pay grade. > > Hi Doug, > > I’m afraid there’s a misunderstanding of how this community operates. > > "Team members” — we de-emphazised the “core dev” terminology in 2014 > because it over-valued writing code — are people who have made consistent, > constructive contributions to Django, usually starting small and then > moving on to more ambitious projects. Albeit slow, this process is the best > way we have found for new contributors to gain trust from existing > contributors. > > There needs to be some mechanism to give a consistent direction to the > Django project. Currently we have two layers of decision: community > consensus and technical board arbitration vote. Obviously voices of team > members matter more in community discussions. We hope that’s because of > their experience with Django and the quality of what they say, not just > because they carry a “team member” flag. Arbitration votes almost never > happen. (There was only one, ever, to drop support for IE8 from the admin.) > > In practice, team members tend to have busy professional lives outside of > Django. This has stalled many projects in the past. For this reason we > structured our organization in order to empower community members as much > as possible and to require as little input from the Django team as > possible. > > We wouldn’t find a core-only conversation nearly as useful as a > community-wide discussion. Perhaps that’s why core panels have fallen out > of fashion at DjangoCons during the last couple of years. And we definitely > don’t want contributors to censor themselves because of perceived pay > grade. > > The only pre-requisite to tackling massive projects such as “let’s > restructure the whole documentation” is to have built enough trust from the > current team for everyone to know that you will complete it in good > conditions. Building that trust requires completing successfully small > projects, then increasingly large ones. Team membership may be offered at > some point in that process. > > I hope this helps, > > -- > Aymeric. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/00f54342-b056-4b8d-8165-c921777cc11d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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