[Gardeners] ALU Wiki and the "discuss this page" option.

[Larry Clapp]

On 2005-12-20, Peter Seibel
<peter at gigamonkeys.com> wrote:
> The ALU Wiki has a feature whereby every page has a cousin page to
> be  used for discussing the first page. (Well, not every page--the
> page  discussion pages can not be discussed.)
>
> I suggest that we *not* use that feature for project
> discussion--i.e.  if you're talking about stuff a project should or
> should not do or  adding information that would be useful to folks
> working on the  project, do that on the project page proper.

Or on the project mailing list (though none of "our" projects have
their own lists yet), or here in the Gardeners' list.

In my experience, "threading" in a Wiki sucks.  I like to know who
said what, when, and to whom they're replying.  If someone wants to
digest the discussion and put it on the wiki, great, but don't make me
try to follow a discussion there.  Cf the current thread on web forums
and how much they suck to a lot of people.

> The use, if any, as I see it, for the page discussion pages is
> literally for discussing the page--meta commentary such as, "This
> page is getting too long, let's split it into two pages", or "Does
> anyone mind if I change all the instances of LISP to Lisp on this
> page?" In other words, stuff that has no direct impact on the
> project  itself.

+1

-- Larry