[WikiToLearn] Communication channels

[Riccardo Iaconelli]

Hi all,

my take on this one: I like that we document our decision making processes in 
a slightly more formal way, but I wouldn't impose such a strict workflow for 
all decisions.

I mean, proposals and ideas can (and will) live in many different places, from 
paper, to google docs, to phabricator tickets, to blog posts. They can be put 
on meta again, but the point is that all issues that need discussion must be 
sent to the relevant mailing list, and do not exist before this happens. It is 
not very important where the person (or the team) has been working on the 
idea, once it's reported in the mail text.

What is important is that decision taken get documented and are accessible in 
a standard place for all the community to see. Half-baked ideas can of course 
live on meta (personal pages?), but it's not crucial that they do so: 
actually, we risk to clutter a space which should be clear for everyone (and 
that will gain more and more visibility in the next future).

What is crucial is that the decision making process has to be open and 
documented. We should try to keep ourselves from taking decisions offline, and 
relegate the reporting to some reports. On the other hands, reports should be 
even more public, for example we should write blog posts around them. 
Sometimes we have to take hard decisions, especially on technical matters, but 
this is what maintainers are there for: have a final say on relevant topics.

On sabato 21 maggio 2016 11:48:23 CEST Gianluca Rigoletti wrote:
> I'm not sure I have been clear, so I just wrote a simple table of what
> I have in mind. It's just an idea, but imho it's really more easy to
> keep track of all the work going on:
> 
> http://meta.wikitolearn.org/User:Grigoletti/Proposal_Management

I really like what Gianluca has done here, but for the reason that it's very, 
very easy to get a glimpse of what is happening around WikiToLearn. I am 
personally sometimes loosing the glimpse of all the amazing things we're doing 
(e.g. I just happened to know that next week there will be an OCG sprint), and 
I guess that for other people it's even worse.

I think that, more than forcing people to use meta for draft proposals, we 
should do a better job at understanding and keeping ourselves up to date with 
who is doing what. Maybe blogposts? An aggregator? News channels?

Bye,
-Riccardo