moving discussion to infra list - is there a way to disable the
discussion tabs on the wikis if people prefer mailing lists to discuss
item to avoid confusing people?
On 12/13/2011 03:02 PM, Jon Choate wrote:
....
>>> Is there a bias towards using the mailing list and
against the
>>> discussion tab on the wiki page when discussing wiki pages? Just
>>> want to
>>> know. I'm used to commenting on wikis on the discussion page.
>>
>> mailing list - shouldn't be.
>> wiki - may be lost on the larger audience - I think discussing on
>> the
>> mailing list makes more sense since many don't subscribe to the
>> wiki
>> pages after their first review from when it was published.
>
> No offense, but the only thing which is more broken than email for
> discussing such things is a wiki discussion (mailing list at least
> pushes changes by default. has clients to manage replies by threads,
> responses can be sent concurrently etc).
>
No offense taken, different tools work better for different groups of people. If we do
not want to use the discussion tabs, is there a way to get rid of them so we don't
have people posting comments there?