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NextXML, brought to you by !XML. Why doesn't XML have a competitor to a wiki? -Rob On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 6:43 AM, Uche Ogbuji <uche@o...> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@i...> > wrote: >> >> On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Ben Trafford <ben@p...> wrote: >> >> > The reason I think this is necessary is because the scope of the >> > discussion is quickly being ill-served by a mailing list. People are >> > starting to present proposals and samples and whatnot -- it'd be good to >> > have a place to put them. >> > >> >> I don't think so. Right now we're just throwing a bunch of random >> ideas at a wall to see what sticks. If anything happens, then assume >> that none of this is what it will eventually look like. I doubt any of >> this discussion is worth saving beyond the memories of the >> participants, and that only in so far as it leads us to future >> decisions. The question now is not, "What is to be done?" It is, >> "Should anything be done?" and "Can anything useful be done?" If those >> are answered in the affirmative, then it will be time to set up >> systems to collect thoughts and organize discussion (though that too >> will probably be primarily a mailing list, not a WIKI). But not yet. > > To be fair, throwing up a wiki for Atom syntax (i.e. PIE ;) ) pretty early > proved beneficial, even though there was just as much disparity, and even > the name was far from settled (the name was determined by vote by active > wiki participants). I don't know for sure whether nextxml.org is too early, > but that experience makes me feel it might not be so.
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