[sldev] [POLICY] Preaching to the choir

[Boroondas Gupte]

Rob Lanphier wrote:
> Do you want a lot of people to join this list strictly for purposes of
> debating this policy?
I didn't want to imply that the main discussion should be here. That'd
be elitist, as a lot of Residents wouldn't feel "at home" on a technical
mailing list. But I think the list could serve as a good place for
feedback from developers (and wanabe developers like me). If the
discussion is only on the blog forum, you have to be aware that quite
some voices that could contribute technical or dev-community specific
considerations and insights will be missing, just because they don't
want to add the the general noise.

Although quite some of use bothered to explain both, what they consider
facts (and why they consider it facts) as well as what their personal
opinions are, you'll note they quickly begin to repeat themselves
because the same (IMHO often flawed) arguments keep popping up in
diverse variations. Of course, the same might occur on SLDev, so Ann and
Anders are probably right.
> Are you absolutely certain that *everyone* on this mailing list would
> prefer to see the conversation occur here?
If "on the mailing list" means everyone reading it (I don't know who all
subscribed) than I'm certain that *not* everyone would prefer it,
because e.g. Prokofy is apparently reading this list and I'm sure
(although he probably didn't state so explicitly) he prefers the
discussion being only on the blog than only here or partly here.

cheers
Boroondas