<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Ned Batchelder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ned@nedbatchelder.com" target="_blank">ned@nedbatchelder.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">If someone understood the entire discussion well enough to
apply filters, etc, then we'd already have reached an agreement.</blockquote></div><br>Perfect summary. Starting from this point, the problem I am trying to solve is to share this line of coming to agreement with the other people.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The process of writing summaries or repeating previous arguments to find out if a consensus is reached is very exhausting. If in real life I can see a person and associate his position with his image, in the mailing list it is just a continuous and contradictory flow of information where you can not track people state. The role of filter or any other tool is thus two fold:</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">1. track and name aspects of discussed topic</div><div class="gmail_extra" style>2. track people positions related to these aspect to find out if you understand their objections</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style>I am not saying that mailing lists should be replaced, but perhaps somebody know a parallel tool (or process) to help with this stuff. I once used piratepad in hope to write summaries and track important/big topics, but copy/paste takes a lot of time, and it is very hard to track multiple aspects in parallel in a single pad or in multiple pads. It might be convenient if used collaboratively, but again - before a proper remote collaboration practice could be developed, a experimental period of testing this process in a teamwork is required.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra" style><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style>Anti Off-Topic: This can be considered an idea for improvement of PEP process (in addition to the idea of providing a feedback channel on PEP pages).</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><div>-- <br>anatoly t.</div>
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