On Feb 16, 2014 4:01 PM, "Steven Walling" <steven.walling(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Greg Grossmeier <greg(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
See also: The general rule among many engineering
departments at WMF is
"If it didn't happen on the list (or somewhere similarly public and
indexable) it didn't happen."
Wikitech is great for discussing things with a wider audience especially
where we need to seek opinions of developers outside the staff. But most
decisions people make are documented on a wiki, Bugzilla, and/or their
preferred project management tool. A mailing list is quite bad at reaching
a consensus decision on something, as evidenced by the fact that we hold
RFCs on a wiki, and not here.
No one is suggesting that we should make all decisions via
teleconferencing.
And I'm not saying the opposite. I'm just referring to the communication of
those decisions (see subject ;)). The end reasoning and decision part (at
least).
Tangentially, I very much disagree with the sentiment that email = bad for
group discussion. There are so many counter examples where it is good for
discussion, and notably in technical discussions where details/quoting is
important.
End rant :)
Greg (from phone)