Re: [hybi] email granularity, was: WebSockets feedback

[Pieter Hintjens <[e-mail]>]

On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 4:44 AM, Maciej Stachowiak <[e-mail]> wrote:

> I find summary emails helpful when they are on a single topic. Ian posts
> emails along these lines to public-html and whatwg, and they are generally
> not seen as problematic, since they tend to focus on a specific area of
> HTML5 and so are helpful for email triage.

Indeed.  It is a common pattern: discuss and collect.  But it works if:

* the discussion is on one topic
* the collection happens on a persistent page

We often do this with articles on wiki pages, i.e. one editor who
centralizes discussion back into a single article.  It's a great way
of collecting feedback on a text.

However as a way of discussing many parallel threads, most of which
are not related to any specific text, it seems to fail.

-Pieter