<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Addison Berry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:drupal@rocktreesky.com">drupal@rocktreesky.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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On Nov 20, 2008, at 7:40 PM, Joshua Brauer wrote:<br>
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> In sort my vote would be that the email list should remain the<br>
> primary workspace and wiki pages, when appropriate, can serve a<br>
> valuable purpose as a supplement.<br>
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</div>Well the main problem is that we can't "occasionally" use wiki pages<br>
as a supplement. You have to be a member to use a wiki page and if we<br>
open up membership then folks can create any kind of group content<br>
which will end up spawning some discussions on g.d.o and some on the<br>
mail list.<br>
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</blockquote><div><br>I think it would be worth while to open up the group membership and see if there is a natural migration towards them. In the same experimental mindset as opening up the editing rights to everyone, lets try it out and see how it goes. Yes, there may be problems with cross posting and etc, but lets see what people gravitate towards and the evolutionary tendency. <br>
<br>I completely agree with Josh's assesment (especially about wiki competency) and I am not a fan of deprecating the mailing list, but I'm willing to let the masses speak and change my thinking. I would also point out that often the reason for people's reluctance to joining a mailing list is the perceived high traffic of them (which it usually isn't) and it would be quite easy to setup the mailing lists to have a better archive interface by joining services like <a href="http://mail-archive.org">mail-archive.org</a> or nabble, so I don't think those are solid reasons for deprecating the list. <br>
<br>One possibility would be to initially setup the group to only allow new members to collaborate on wikis, so we can use it as a supplement (instead of a full discussion forum). <br> </div></div><br>