Re: Making the Tao a web page

[Paul Hoffman <[e-mail]>]

On May 31, 2012, at 4:30 PM, Nick Hilliard wrote:

> On 01/06/2012 00:04, Paul Hoffman wrote:
>> Works for me, other than it should not be a "wiki". It should have one
>> editor who takes proposed changes from the community the same way we do
>> it now. Not all suggestions from this community, even from individuals
>> in the leadership, are ones that should appear in such a document.
> 
> In practice, if this is to be a living document then it should be open for
> inspection and poking rather than preserved in formaldehyde and put in a
> display case, only to be opened occasionally when the curator decides the
> glass needs some dusting.  That way leads to sclerosis.

Thank you for that most colorful analogy. :-) What I proposed is exactly what we are doing now, except that the changes would appear on the web page instead of an Internet-Draft and, five years later, an RFC. Are you saying that the current system (which you have not commented on until now) is sclerotic (a word that I have wanted to use since I learned it in high school)?

> Please put it on a wiki and put all changes through a lightweight review
> system.  If someone makes a change which doesn't work, then it can be
> reverted quickly and easily.  This approach is much more in line with the
> ietf approach of informality / asking for forgiveness rather than
> permission / rough consensus + running code / etc.


In the IETF approach, only the authors of an Internet-Draft can change the contents of that draft. I hope you are not proposing a change to that as well.

--Paul Hoffman