From my perspective, mails have two useful and apparent properties - messages are authored and time stamped, and viewing the list through Gmane or whatever would allow people to keep up to date without burdening their inboxes. With a Wiki the authorship and time stamp are deep within the history - on a Wiki, one would expect people to be respectful, but you never know. Also my personal feeling is that Wiki comments would go the way of (elaborate) source code comments - vis
Hello everyone, Could a new mailing list for patches and/or commentary do the work of the proposed package Wikis? Similar to the libraries list but separate so it doesn't pollute the libraries list from its important job of discussing and refining the core libs. the old chestnut "Are out of date comments, better than no comments?" Best wishes Stephen