On 11/21/11 9:22 AM, Jake Verbaten wrote:
As long as G+ is only an optional addition for people who want to use it, does it really do harm?
As long as all technical discussion ends up in a central place where everyone can see it at some point, no harm done.
My experience is that once you have side channels for technical discussion, that doesn't happen anymore. Plenty of stuff gets discussed on irc and makes it into the spec without any mention on this mailing list, for example.
The net result is that it becomes easy for small echo-chamber groups to push through changes to the spec that are bad (whether on purpose or not) that everyone else is supposed to notice "somehow" and go about fixing.
-Boris
