Hi Ole, Yeliz, Qing,

On 4/25/07, Ole Ersoy <ole.ersoy-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Yeliz,
>
> Sounds interesting.
>
> I think this will be most useful
> to the Apache Directory group
> if the questions are asked
> through the mailing list.


These are not technical discussions and not central to our community's
operation so there is no need to enforce the use of the ML.  You need to
chill out with pushing that indiscriminately.  I appreciate your diligence
however to keep all technical discussions on the list however there's no
need to force these nice folks interested in analyzing us to keep their
interviews for a study public on the ML.  You're going to scare them off.

That way everyone gets a real time
> reflection of thoughts about this.


They may like to ask some private questions and that's fine.  You don't have
a right to constrain their choice of a medium.  There may be other human
expressions they look for besides those that can be conveyed via email.

I think your hypothesis is a good
> one and a natural one.
>
> When people work in teams it helps
> a great deal if everyone uses similar
> conventions and processes, so that when
> tasks need to be transitioned, they can
> be picked up by other team members
> with minimum required effort.
>
> I think the "Convention over Configuration"
> principle captures the idea nicely.



So I'll be glad to answer questions on the mailing list.


That's your personal medium of choice and this is fine but in no way are
Qing and Yeliz required to do that with everyone.  This is not critical to
what we do here day in and day out with the code or the community.

If there are questions that must be asked in a non-public
> forum, I'll be glad to answer those through regular email,
> but I would need detailed justification for why they
> need to be non-public.


Fine for you but  this is your personal choice and Qing and Yeliz should not
feel as though everyone requests this.

Alex

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