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On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 03:12:02PM +0000, Kurt Lieber wrote: |
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> On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 04:07:14PM +0100 or thereabouts, Stuart Herbert wrote: |
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> > Sure. Although I have to say that it's the sort of thing that any credible |
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> > open-source of our size should be putting in place. |
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> Putting it in place is only half of the equation. If we make it available |
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> and nobody uses it, that almost makes us look *less* credible than if we |
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> never had it at all. |
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From cursory inspection of the interest list |
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(http://penguincluster.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/BlogInterest), there does indeed seem to |
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be grounds for some kind of journaling system. |
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I think the promise of a journal is for users, but also *other devs* to get |
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into the eachothers' mindsets. Doing brain-dumps about sweeping changes or |
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wild ideas to the mailing lists are generally frowned upon. The same is |
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encouraged in journals, thus allowing for an ounce of better understanding, |
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when apparently illogical new schemes are set into motion. |
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However, it should be noted, that as each journal is also a personal ranting |
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space, the ratio of incendiary comments on the journals are likely to be |
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higher than on the mailing lists (though probably less than the forums;) |
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Hopefully, they'll be contained to the journal at hand. |
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-- Karl T |
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