Wiki: special namespace for proposals?

[Carter Schonwald]

yeah, agreed

currently on the wiki its sometimes hard to determine which pages are "this
is how we implemented it" vs
"this is a bunch of different ideas and approaches we're trying to layout"

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Joachim Breitner <mail at joachim-breitner.de
> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> Am Mittwoch, den 15.10.2014, 18:48 +0200 schrieb Jan Stolarek:
> > Joachim >> yes, you are right that proposals and designs are different
> things.
> >
> > > And we already have a namespace for that: Commentary!
> > Good point.
> >
> > > So when a Proposal gets implemented, this should be clearly noted at
> the
> > > top of the Proposal page, linking to the relevant Comentary page
> > > (...)
> > > The discussion about the Proposal would still be there for those who
> need to do some historical
> > > digging
> > I disagree about these statements. Wiki pages typically don't contain
> discussions between people -
> > trac tickets do. Unless you meant theoretical discussion of possible
> approaches to implementing a
> > proposal.
>
> That’s what I meant. The kind of „discussion“ found in papers, not the
> one found on this list :-)
>
> >  In that case, from my experience, once a proposal is implemented most
> of the discussion
> > about alternatives becomes irrelevant.
>
> I wouldn’t be too sure about this (but I also don’t have examples to
> back that up right now).
>
>
> Another difference: A proposal needs to convince that something is
> useful and worth doing. Once we have a design page that’s no longer
> needed, as we have to live with it (or replace it) :-)
>
> Greetings,
> Joachim
>
>
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