Re: "unofficial GOP proposal" organization of GLISS discussions

[Marc Hohl]

Am 05.10.2012 18:34, schrieb Janek Warchoł:
> Hi all,
>
> i find it hard to keep up with our GLISS discussions.  I've also heard
> that the amount of technical details, digressions and
> "multithreadedness" stops some people from participating, as they
> don't have enough time to read long conversations carefully.
>
> Therefore i suggest to visibly separate discussing problems from
> discussing solutions.
> Currently we are mostly discussing ideas for syntax, i.e. "let's have
> syntax X doing Y".  I suggest that for several weeks we shall focus on
> "i find syntax W confusing" and "i find notation Z
> difficult/inconvenient to express in current syntax" instead.  We
> would add syntax problems that we identify as issues to the tracker.
> After we've finished gathering them, we'll sort the issues and *then*
> we would discuss how to solve them.

I second this in principle, but I fear that it would not be that easy
to separate discussions about "defects" from those about syntax
ideas in every case.
> Why do it this way?
> - we'll see the big picture better
> - we'll be able to schedule the discussions about solutions, so it'll
> be easier to participate in them
+1
> And perhaps most importantly: when someone posts a syntax *idea*,
> there's a chance that syntax experts will reply "omg wtf?! this won't
> work".  This leads to frustration.  On the other hand, if we discuss
> our *problems*, syntax experts can just answer "it would be reasonable
> to solve it this or that way" - and voila! less frustration.
+1

Regards,

Marc