Most discussions are outdated, either irrelevant or incorrect. >> > That does not make them invaluable. >
If nobody cares to reuse them then they are de facto deprecated. A newcomer may not be able to distinguish what is outdated and what is not: keeping information that is inconsistent is dangerous. > > Discussions happen on IRC or the ML, no need for duplicates. >> We could argue about the lack of forums but in any case the Wiki is not >> one. >> > > Deleting them just like that without saving and a plan to incorporate them > in other ways would be a blow to their freedom to post them in a first > place. > If nobody stepped up, in the past three years that we have been talking about it, to process them then it means that nobody cared enough to devise such plan. > > I have an idea of integrating them (and on-site comments) into newly made > mailing list integration with forum-like representation of it. So I would > need them all. > Then let us back them up. > > Bare in mind that any way people contact and are active, is a good way and > shutting down means of communication is not positive by any means. > Better do one thing right than several wrong. > > Besides, if you take a look at public forums, they also include all > previous old messages, and no one asks just like that, to remove them and > why should? > Because a wiki is not a forum and enabling this feature was a mistake in the first place. > > OI also had much more mailing lists in the past but someone unonimously > shut them down, like: > They are useless when the number of mailing-lists exceeds the number of users. > > Power to destroy is ,someone say, power over something, but power of > reusing and creation is much bigger power, so no to 'just deleting' > people's comments at the present time... > I agree with this but if nobody reuses them and the situation leads to inconsistency I'd rather get consistency over quantity. > > > _______________________________________________ > oi-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev > -- --- Praise the Caffeine embeddings
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