[Foundation-l] Re: new project mailing lists

[Anthony DiPierro]

On 11/21/05, GerardM <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi,
> When the new project proposals and new language requests are done in a
> seperate mailing list, this mailing list will not have a representative
> population of the Wikimedia crowd. The discussions, even when interesting,
> will not lead to a consensus that is representative. This in turn will lead
> to a consensus brought as what is to be done which will be angrily denied to
> be a consensus by those who were not aware of what was going on.
>
> All the overly much huha about new languages needs its place. If there is
> one thing wrong is that too little is said about other things. This is not
> remedied by removing this not ununimportant subject from the mailing lists.
>
> Thanks,
> GerardM

I don't see the harm.  So a new project is started which some people
would have opposed if they had known about it?  What they don't know
won't hurt them.

Why does there need to be a consensus to start a new project in the first place?

Anthony