On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Mark Mitchell wrote: > > As for making all proposals public, some people have asked that they be > > kept confidential because they didn't want to put out ideas publicly > > that were going to have no chance of being included.
I wish that people didn't feel that way; off-the-wall ideas sometimes lead to better ideas even if the original proposal is completely unsuitable, and things that aren't realistic to include in a short time frame can work out OK long-term. On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 01:56:59PM +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > Personally, that sounds somewhat strange for contributions to an open > source project, and I would strongly prefer all proposals to be public > to counter any FUD anyone might spread on our processes. It depends. If someone wants a confidential "sanity check" on a proposal before making it public, I don't much care (though Mark might find himself overburdened if he's in charge of all sanity checking, because people mail only him). But any private communication between a proposer and Mark should only be a first step; real development discussions should take place on this list.
