[Foundation-l] Re: new project mailing lists

[SJ]

> 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.

I'm not sure exactly what you were responding to above.  My
suggestion, at least, was not for the new mailing lists to produce
consensus -- this would come about on the main mailing list once a
more heated and detailed discussion has been played out on the
topic-specific list.  I am suggesting that topics which tend to a) be
quite heated and b) involve the same small set of people over and
over, should be given their own list for the standard argument-cycle
to play out; and then can post summaries of that cycle to the main
mailing list.  When consensus needs to be reached, the whole
discussion could move to the main list, or better yet a suitable wiki.

SJ