[uf-dev] proposal: opening up microformats-dev subscriptions

[Ryan King]

I'm all for this, and I think we should do it immediately.

-ryan

On Oct 16, 2006, at 10:11 AM, Tantek Çelik wrote:

> Greetings microformats-dev,
>
> If you have been following the microformats-discuss list, you are  
> aware that
> there has been a thread regarding creating a new microformats list  
> for the
> purpose of beginners, which was the purpose of the microformats- 
> discuss
> list, and thus has turned into a proposal for creating a new list for
> research and development of *new* microformats.
>
> Part of that discussion raised the issue of improving the use of  
> *this*
> list.
>
> So far we have required a *public* implementation, documented on the
> "Implementations" wiki page for membership in order to help keep our
> development discussions focused on real-world issues by real coders  
> rather
> than theoretical chicken-little type discussions raised by armchair- 
> coders
> (which I've seen happen on far too many other open dev lists).
>
> However, the proposal is to now change that, to open up the  
> microformats-dev
> list to any subscriber and simply make it a *policy* to keep the  
> discussion
> focused on real-world developer issues rather than purely hypothetical
> issues.
>
> I think this can work for a couple of reasons:
>
> 1. microformats-dev has quite a few "real world" developers with
> proven/published/public track records on it.  I think it is strong  
> enough to
> withstand some amount of "new developer influx" who may start  
> asking a lot
> of theoretical/hypothetical questions.
>
> 2. microformats as a community has matured sufficiently and adopted  
> enough
> of a "pragmatic first" culture that even "new developers" are more  
> likely to
> take a pragmatic/empirical approach to discussions rather than purely
> philosophical/theoretical approach.
>
> As a member of microformats-dev, what do you think of this proposal?
>
> Please reply to list, and hopefully it will become quickly clear  
> what the
> community thinks one way or another.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tantek
>
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