Re: Need for some guidelines to improve participation

[Yuchen Pei]

Bert Van de Poel <bert@bhack.net> writes:

> Dear fellow repo-criteria-discuss members,
>
> As some of you have remarked (including me), discussions here 
> tend to
> fizzle before things are properly finished. I would like to 
> point to
> an in my opinion clear explanation why this keeps happening and 
> would
> like to hear from others if their limited participation stems 
> from the
> same origins.
>
> Specifically, I've noticed a tendency by some of the more active
> members of this list to answer a single email in several 
> steps. Either
> splitting up a single email into several responses, or 
> responding
> first to the original and then to some of the other 
> reactions. This
> creates a thread structures that's far from linear and I would 
> say
> even makes it truly look like a nine headed hydra. For the past 
> three
> or so weekends I had planned to tackle my unread email from this 
> list,
> but found myself ever more demotivated by just even vaguely 
> trying to
> grasp who exactly has been responding to who and where 
> discussions
> were going. As the thread view of the codeberg thread (attached 
> as a
> screenshot to this email) illustrates, once you get behind a few 
> days
> it's far from easy to catch up.

I was able to keep track of the discussions by gathering info 
under an org mode headline. It worked wonderfully and I suspect a 
plaintext file could achieve the same effect though less 
convenient.

Best,
Yuchen

> I fear that like me, many members here find it hard to motivate
> themselves to wade through split up argumentation. I would 
> personally 
> much prefer if discussions were kept more linear. If people feel 
> like
> we should mix discussion of several criteria within a single 
> thread,
> then I suggest we start completely new threads with a separate 
> subject
> for each criteria, though I personally don't see why we couldn't 
> all
> discuss them in one, linear thread. Of course, in practice it's 
> far
> from realistic to always stay perfectly linear, but it is my 
> belief
> that more people would get involved and give their opinion on 
> this
> list if the discussions were more structured and linear.
>
> I hope to hear from those members who have been less active, and 
> see
> what their take on the matter is. If of course I'm alone in this
> concern I'll gladly keep my frustrations about this to myself, 
> but if
> others have these same problems, I suggest we should adhere 
> certain
> guidelines in the spirit of better participation and 
> cooperation.
>
> Kind regards,
> Bert Van de Poel


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