Hello, team!
I'm glad to see you're picking up the mailing list for architectural
decision making (win!); but you might want to familiarize yourself with:
http://linux.sgms-centre.com/misc/netiquette.php
In particular, point 9 is especially salient here. The issue isn't just
one of courtesy, but as a project grow or when you join an extant
project with an active developer community, you will find that those
conventions tend to be the "social grease" that allows a high-volume
mailing list to remain reasonably useful despite the decreasing signal
to noise ratio.
On the substantive front, you've been throwing around some really good
ideas on the wiki; and I was wondering how much /technical/ guidance you
wanted? I'm happy with letting you proceed independently and arrive
unguided at a design -- keeping in mind that we are aiming for a first
prototype in March at the latest -- but I will gladly help with
constraining the solution set if you feel you are floundering. Do not
hesitate to ask for help!
I look forward to meeting you and working up a big step forward next
weekend!
-- Marc A. Pelletier