Rik Hoekstra wrote:
maillists vs discussion platforms. This problem is caused by the intermingling of too many different functions of a wiki. I'll go a bit at length to expose these and try to strike a balance, which should be in a combination (did I hear WikiDot?):
Yes, well, that's the idea ;-)
Even if there is a mail-notification possibility, this leads to the situation that mails are sent as replies to the notification (by accident) and not to the forum itself (I'm not sure about Squishdot on this last point).
This is a real problem for Squishdot. I hate to think how many emails Butch has recieved at squishdot@yahoo.com because it's the default reply to address in the Squishdot demo sites. Swishdot will hopefull not have this problem when used in conjunction with ZMailIn.
4.Some people think Wiki discussions are easily dispersed. Bad Wiki discussions are, but discussion products are almost always dispersed by nature. On many occasions I have (already) seen people summarize and structure maillist discussions into a Wiki web.
Yes, but does that mean the Wiki is good for the initial discussion?
The Wikis on the dev.zope site do a bit of this with delegating discussion to a discussion page.
Yes, but that's only advisory, it's not enforced...
Most of these points are addressed in the proposal, but what I wanted to add is the notion of the necessity of integrating the three types of discussion into one product. That would make for a new generation. How would that look then:
<snip Memepool equivalent> Funny you should say that. Some other people I'm chatting to have come up with roughly the same ideas... cheers, Chris