Saving all discussion outputs (was Re: [xwiki-users] Do we need a forum?)

On Mar 14, 2007, at 8:22 AM, Vincent Massol wrote: BTW thinking about this it's true that we take the result to jira or the wiki but there's one category that we don't summarize: things that haven't lead anywhere. For example, take this forum idea which we are debating. Imagine that we don't go forward with it. I think it would still be useful to keep a trace of that on xwiki.org. Something like "Things we've discussed but decided not to go forward with". So when someone asks or raises again the idea we could point them to that place. It would also serve as documentation so that any new comer will not be tempted to raise again some topic (unless he's read the old threads and decided he's something new to bring to the table). I believe this is what is advocated in http://video.google.nl/ videoplay?docid=-4216011961522818645 (How Open Source Projects Survive Poisonous People (And You Can Too). It's not easy to do and requires conscious thoughts but it's an idea to get the maximum value out of any discussion. We spend energy and time discussing something so it would be good that this energy be useful to a maximum extent. This could make it a little bit more useful. Thanks -Vincent