Hi Aaron et al. Aaron Brown wrote:
I'm not sure the best way to go about this. The benefit of a mailing list is that everyone sees what's going on (especially those with more peripheral interest) and it's immediately obvious when new information appears. The downside is that it's very much unstructured. The wiki has the opposite benefits and problems.
Does anyone have experience in both? In mine, wiki's haven't provided good areas for discussion, but mailing list stuff seems to never make it into the wiki.
I am not advocating we stop mailing each other ;-) Discussions via email are certainly central to the WG! The reason for the Wiki is that as a WG we have to deliver a schema at the end. The Wiki has the advantage that everybody sees in real-time the latest status and can easily contribute. Another option would be to write down things in text documents and mail them around, but this is a less scalable and possibly slower approach. Regards, Paola