More Planning Thoughts

[Michael Stone]

Dear devel@,

While I'm still rather far away from "done", I may have imposed enough
structure on my present fragmented reflections on our goals to be worth
your review [1].

  [1]: http://teach.laptop.org/~mstone/planning/r1

As always, questions & comments are greatly appreciated. In this
particular email, I'm most interested in thoughts that my commentary
inspires in you and in your contributions toward my "represents the
diversity of justified views within the tech community" goal. In future
emails, I will be more concerned with your analysis of the quality of
the justifications given and of the appropriateness of the proposed
primary and backup plans.

(Also, this week, particular thanks are due to Greg for his excellent
and intriguing discussion [2] of, in my words, "how to avoid painting
your team into ugly corners".)

  [2]: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Mstone/August_planning#A_suggestion_on_how_to_reach_a_decision_quickly

Michael

P.S. - (Feel free to wikify if it matters to you; I certainly appreciate
the feedback I've received on [2], particularly Greg's comments [3].
Alternately, would people find something like the FSF's GPLv3 comment
system, the Django Book's comment system, or the Real World Haskell
Book's comment system handy for preparing this sort of planning
document? If so, can anyone volunteer to put up an instance?
Alternately, does TOPP supply anything that addresses the communication
problems posed by documents like this one?)