I agree, +1 for your idea. Sent from my iPod
On May 7, 2012, at 4:58 AM, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel.kamst...@canonical.com> wrote: > On 05/04/2012 06:10 AM, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: >> Hi folks >> >> We've done rather well to attract a lot of comments and discussion on >> the unity-design list, which is great. And there are lots of interesting >> ideas and suggestions and proposals and mockups, which is even better. >> >> There are, however, quite a lot of repetitive threads. For example, >> today's "yet another dodge windows" thread. Into that category I'd put >> the "why can't it be an option" thread and the "it's ridiculous that the >> buttons are on the left" thread. For all that they represent perfectly >> valid ideas, which are certainly shared by some users, they have been >> discussed to death and are boring to re-hash again and again. They clog >> an inbox that would otherwise be full of more interesting, new ideas. We >> are over them, so to speak, but new participants may not know that. >> >> There's lots of value in having a public, unmoderated list for design >> discussions. It's good to have a place where anybody can generate ideas. >> And this list is fine for that. I'd like to propose an additional list, >> unity-distilled, which would be public and unmoderated, but open by >> invitation only. Participation there would be predicated on a shared >> understanding of our values, goals and modus operandi. People would be >> invited if they show an interest, insight into and agreement with the >> answers to the above boring threads, and several more like them. I'm >> sure we'll have vigorous debates on -distilled, but folk there would >> have demonstrated an ability to have the debate, settle the question and >> move on to more interesting matters rather than letting the same topics >> come up repeatedly. >> >> Thoughts? > > I think the noise is more a symptom that a mailing list, or its current > execution, is not tuned for these discussions. > > Some big problems with the current mailing list is: > > 1) Archives are not searchable (see http://lists.launchpad.net/unity-design), > making it very hard to provide pointers to old discussions > > 2) There is no moderation or clear authority. No one to stop off-topic-, > repetitive-, or burning threads. > > > I'd suggest either a) creating a unity-design police with the proper > authority and admin rights and making sure the archives are searchable, or b) > using another tool that is more dynamic and meritocratic in nature, ala > stackexchange or similar. > > Cheers, > Mikkel > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design > Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
