This Proposal is to document how we want to process ideas that may impact the structure of the seattlewireless group. While this was designed with technical matters in mind, it should hopefully support any type of proposal.
This page exists so we can eat our own dogfood.
General stuff
- Every proposal will start with 'Proposal' as the start of the wiki page (eg ProposalDNS). Each proposal will be clearly marked as such.
There will be an area for questions & comments on each proposal. We will have a node on wiki named 'Proposals', where all proposals will be linked from. This can be done automaticly, if you include a link to the Proposal page from each one.
Example lifespan of a proposal
- Initial idea gets born (Let's use lasers!)
- Author(s) write up wiki page, clearly marking the page as a proposal, so not to confuse the masses. (Here's why lasers rock, etc)
- Author(s) submit proposal to mailing list for comments.
- Comments/Questions are added to the marked sections of the proposal, to keep author(s) work intact. ("Let's keep it under 1000amps, ok?")
Author answers questions/merges ideas into main proposal. ("All lasers should be under 1000amps@15kvolts")
if (iterations <= 3 or timeframe < 1 month) { goto 3. }
- At some random point when it feels right, the planets are in perfect alignment, or it's just needed, the author sends a final request for comments to the mailinglist.
- Pending any 'show stopping bugs', the proposal ends up as part of the SWN site.
Authors
Proposal talked about @ the 1-17-02 meeting of the minds. Created by MattWestervelt, KennethCaruso, BrianWilloughby and EricJohanson.
Questions & Comments
Just to make sure things are clear, are future proposal pages to be created as ProposalWhatever or WhateverProposal? You used ProposalDNS as an exaple but the actual page is DnsProposal, also IpAllocationProposal already follows the trailing form. Does the order strictly matter? Either way I propose ( 
) WhateverProposal, if only because it might sound better. So long as CategoryProposal is added to the bottom it shouldn't matter either, and page listing can still use a regex, we just put Proposal at the end. Seems like the only side effect would be that TitleIndex wouldn't have all of the proposal's listed next to eachother, but WordIndex still would. -RichardLotz
