<div dir="ltr">On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 9:43 PM, Terry Jan Reedy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tjreedy@udel.edu" target="_blank">tjreedy@udel.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><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"><div>On 4/28/2013 11:37 AM, anatoly techtonik wrote:<br>
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I find it really hard to track proposals, ideas and various deviations<br>
in mailing lists, which is especially actual for lists such as<br>
python-ideas. I bet other people experience this problem too. The<br>
typical scenario:<br>
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1. You make a proposal<br>
2. The discussion continues<br>
3. Part of the discussion is hijacked<br>
4. Another part brings the problem you haven't seen<br>
5. You don't have time to investigate the problem<br>
6. Discussion continues<br>
7. Thread quickly gets out of scope of daily emails<br>
8. Contact lost<br>
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Several week later you remember about the proposal:<br>
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9. You open the original proposal to notice a small novel<br>
10. You start to reread<br>
11. Got confused<br>
13. Recall the details<br>
14, Find a way out from irrelevant deviation<br>
15. Encounter the problem<br>
16. Spend what is left to investigate the problem<br>
17. Run out of time<br>
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The major problem I have is steps 9-15. Sometimes these take the most of<br>
the time. What would help to make all the collaboration here more<br>
productive are colored view/filters (summaries) for discussions. It<br>
would work like so:<br>
<br>
00. The discussion is laid out as a single page<br>
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This is what the PEP process is about. Anyone can summarize a idea as a proto-pep either initially or after preliminary discussion. Objections and unresolved issues are part of a pep. Revisions and reposting are part of the process.</blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>I thought about writing PEPs, but my CPU cycles and Memory are too limited to support current PEP process. I'd be happy to run a Stackless version of it, which can be paralleled, suspended or resumed on a different humanware.</div>
<div>-- <br>anatoly t. </div></div></div></div>