From: "Tobias Reif" <tobiasreif / pinkjuice.com>
> My fear is that if the list of requirements @ the Wiki is editable, then
> 50 people can change items to opposite preferences 50 times per minute.

I think you should have more faith in the Ruby community.  As long as I have
been using Ruby I have *never* seen anyone breach either mailing list or
Wiki etiquette.

On a Wiki there are strong social constraints to stop people changing what
others have written.  In my experience it just doesn't happen, except when
some idiots from outside the community come it to cause deliberate
vandalism.  Even then the community can recover the original content from
backups, personal caches, or previous versions in the Wiki system.

The difficulty in a Wiki discussion is that people do not do *enough*
refactoring of the pages, perfering to append comments to the bottom of the
page until it degenerates into a threaded discussion like USENET or a
mailing list. Some impartial refactoring is necessary to turn discussions
into a readable document, either while the topic is hot, to maintain
signal-to-noise ratio, or after discussions have slowed down a bit, to
summarise the discussion and its conclusions.  As long as refactorings do
not change what people say, there is no problem with this.  It is exactly
how Wikis are meant to be used.

I conclusion, I vote for a Wiki page on Ruby Garden.

Cheers,
            Nat.
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