mailing-lists-proposals

There is a proposal for creating a new mailing list for discussing the research and creation of new microformats so that those discussions do not overwhelm microformats-discuss.

Some candidates for names with the thinking behind them. Feel free to add your name and opinion (+/- 1 or 0).

• microformats-new (focusing on discussing "new" microformats)
  • +1 tantek
  • +1 ScottReynen
  • +1 Lachlan Hunt
  • +1 Joe Andrieu
  • -1 Andy Mabbett
  • +1 Bob Jonkman
  • +1 Ben Ward
  • +1 Ben O'Neill
• microformats-research (focusing on the essential, and often overlooked by first-time proposers "research" phase(s) in the process)
  • +1 tantek
  • +1 ScottReynen
  • +1 cgriego
  • +1 Phae
  • +1 JustinThorp
  • -1 Andy Mabbett
  • -1 Joe Andrieu
  • -1 Bob Jonkman (research is part of process, best documented on the Wiki)
  • -1 Ben Ward (strikes me as dilution too far of µf-discuss and µf-new)
• microformats-process (That's really what we're talking about with research of new microformats, isn't it?)
  • +1 ScottReynen
  • +1 Lachlan Hunt
  • +1 singpolyma
  • -1 Andy Mabbett
  • -1 Joe Andrieu
  • -1 cgriego (reminds me of parsing--processing--more so than even microformats-dev)
  • -1 Bob Jonkman (Is this the process of creating a new microformat, or the some other process? Document it on the Wiki, I say)
• microformats-propose (it misses the point of the process, and implies that there is a desire for microformats proposals - there isn't)
  • -1 tantek
  • -1 ScottReynen
  • 0 Andy Mabbett
  • -1 Bob Jonkman
  • -1 Ben Ward
• microformats-suggest (similar to propose but milder ;)
  • +1 ChrisMessina
  • 0 tantek
  • -1 ScottReynen
  • -1 Phae (I feel this is just -propose in disguise)
  • -1 BenWest
  • -1 Andy Mabbett
  • -1 Bob Jonkman
  • -1 Ben Ward (If µf-new or similar is created for active spec'ing and format development, uf-discuss would comfortably accomodate this as part of the course of discussion)
• microformats-work: For working on microformats, new and old.
  • +1 BenWest: I thought we are interested in a list that provides a venue for iterating through the process, and revising and refining microformats in general. discuss is for newbies, and dev is for implementing them.
• nothing (fix uf-dev, do nothing else (for now))
  • +1 RyanKing
  • +1 Tim White
  • +1 Andy Mabbett
  • 0 Bob Jonkman
  • 0 Ben Ward
  • -1 BenWest
  • -1 Tantek (we have opened uf-dev and I still strongly believe we need a new list for the discussion of new microformats, separate from microformats-discuss in order to avoid overwhelming new folks with details and minutiae of new and in development formats.)