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

[Maciej Stachowiak <[e-mail]>]

On Apr 16, 2010, at 9:34 AM, Pieter Hintjens wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Tim Bray <[e-mail]>  
> wrote:
>
>>  Ian's massive batch
>> updates defeat this strategy and decrease the likelihood that I'll be
>> able to participate meaningfully.  -T
>
> Is it fair to conclude that observers are happy with the summary
> emails (though they do not actually capture a summary of the group's
> mind), while participants see them as difficult to work with?

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.

I think the point of friction here is not consolidating replies per  
se, but whether WebSocket is "a single topic". I would guess that from  
Ian's point of view it is, and from the point of view of many hybi wg  
participants, it is not.

Regards,
Maciej