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<p>Thanks Felicity,</p>
<p>I reckon the success of a decision log in a volunteer project
depends upon its ease of use. As such, I suggest simply to only
include:</p>
<p>* Date Decided (or "Pending")</p>
<p>* Motion</p>
<p>* Discussion (which links to email discussion, and optionally
includes summary)</p>
<p>In row 2 of your spreadsheet, I've provided more detailed
suggestions:</p>
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href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fhYL7VqUAzL9_K22G6GS9leK-Yd-XRQdWh9IU1LLF9U/edit#gid=0">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fhYL7VqUAzL9_K22G6GS9leK-Yd-XRQdWh9IU1LLF9U/edit#gid=0</a></p>
<p>We can remove row after discussion.</p>
<p>Cameron<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/8/19 1:26 pm, Felicity Brand
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<div dir="ltr">Turns out making a decision log is really BORING -
who knew?!
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<div>I have made a start. Here is a Google Sheet: <a
href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fhYL7VqUAzL9_K22G6GS9leK-Yd-XRQdWh9IU1LLF9U/edit?usp=sharing"
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<div>It's got a lot of gaps. I will try and fill it in a bit
more when I get more motivation. If anyone feels like adding
stuff in, please be my guest.</div>
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<div>Cheers</div>
<div>Felicity</div>
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<div dir="auto">A decision log would be a much better history
of the project than searching through email. The email
archive is going to become large, and searching it for
history that you don’t already know about might seem like a
forbidding task.
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<div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> And
the lack of historical info could discourage newcomers
by depriving them of any context. </span>
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<div>It would be better for future contributors if we
could explain the decision history in a log, and this is
important because the project is about better user
experience through better documentation.</div>
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<div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">At
the very least the decisions voted on over the
previous week should be summarized in the meeting
minutes. </span></div>
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<div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">It
would be better to accumulate all the decisions in one
place, either by compiling the minutes or by having a
consistently formatted decision log.</span></div>
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On Aug 2, 2019, at 5:01 PM, Cameron Shorter <<a
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<p>+0 from me.</p>
<p>I think it is a good idea, although I haven't
seen it used in Open Source projects I've been
involved in, which makes me question how important
it is if open communities haven't picked it up.</p>
<p>I'd be inclined to make it super light, to
encourage use. Probably:</p>
<p>Date, Motion, Pass/Fail result, a link to the
final email in thread which calls the vote. (If
interested, historians can dig through the email
archive.<br>
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3/8/19 7:52 am, Erin McKean wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Thanks to a great suggestion from
Ríona MacNamara, I'd like to propose we start a
decision log for the Good Docs project.
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We are sending a lot of email and it might be
hard for people to find decisions there or in
the meeting notes.</div>
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<div>General format is description, date,
deciders, rationale, alternatives considered,
followup needed.</div>
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<div>Thoughts?</div>
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<div>Thanks!<br>
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Erin</div>
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