On Apr 16, 2009, at 9:34 PM, Rachel Walmsley wrote: > Can we please call a hiatus on this discussion for now? I think that > most thigns that can be said about this have been said by this point, > and it mostly seems to be the same points being reiterated. I don't > want > anyone to feel like I'm trying to censor them, because I'm not! I'm > just > worried that with all the volume that we have had and are > continuing to > have on this issue, we're drowning out any other possible > discussions on > this list, and possibly also driving away people who just don't > want to > deal with this volume of email. So what I'm asking for (and it is just > asking) is that we all just take a break from discussing this at least > until Mark or Denise have had a chance to read over this thread and > state some sort of an official position. Once they say what general > approach they're planning to take, then we can concentrate on any > minutiae of exactly how it should be implemented.
Thanks, rho. I happened to be asleep through all of this. Official position is that this is the sort of thing we won't even begin to think about until well after open beta, when we can have the discussion on DW itself and come to, if not a consensus, than at least a point where all sides have adequately defined their positions. This is not the kind of thing that can be solved overnight. I'd also like everyone to remember that every time you send a message to this mailing list, you are sending it to over six hundred people. Please ask yourself if you really, really, really need to CC the mailing list when replying to someone. There's generally no reson to post anything along the lines of a "me too" to the mailing list as well as to the author of the message you're replying to. We will be moving the various functions of the dw-discuss mailing list to DW itself shortly after site opening, but until then, I'd like to ask everyone to just hold on to your ideas for a few weeks. Nothing can get implemented in between now and open beta, and we are very, very, very busy. Moderating complex mailing list discussions is not the best use of our time right now, so let's hold this sort of discussion later. --D -- Denise Paolucci [email protected] Dreamwidth Studios: Open Source, open expression, open operations. Coming April 30! _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
