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Re: Crowdfunding for FAQ Maintainer

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Michael Haufe (TNO) wrote:

> Christoph Michael Becker wrote:
>> The week is over, and there is no strong consensus for a FAQ maintainer.
>>  It occurs to me that this won't change in the "near" future (i.e. in
>> the next few years, at least).  It seems some regulars prefer to wait
>> for a messiah to come and take over the job, instead of choosing between
>> available candidates...
> 
> I'd prefer at most a wiki form of a FAQ with a white-list of contributors.
> Though if I had to choose only one person to do the work of maintaining
> the FAQ, Thomas Lahn would have to be it. The last thing I want to see is
> a FAQ full of cheap tricks and youtube links, and PE seems to be the most
> dedicated and reliable member of the volunteers to do this task (though
> admittedly the amount of time he has been part of the group has a small
> impact on this decision as well). Given that though, I do have some
> misgivings to how well feedback and suggestions would be received and
> integrated if this FAQ follows the feedback trend that the ES-Matrix
> has...

What about the ES Matrix?  Since I have updated it with the results of my 
thesis this June, so that it now includes a submit button, I have been 
thankfully receiving quite a lot of feedback (*effective* submissions – 
duplicates are automatically prevented: 81 different environments, 66'392 
test results for 278 features), and I am planning to integrate that in due 
course.  You are welcome to push that button in all browsers you can get 
your hands on¹, and, like other people, let me know if something is wrong.

[Thanks again to Bergi who pointed out via e-mail recently that Opera 
ECMAScript 12.16 apparently has an implementation bug which causes eval("e") 
in the ES Matrix version of jsx.tryThis() to evaluate to a reference to the 
“a” element object with “name”/“id” "e" instead of the “catch” parameter 
“e”, giving false negatives for exception tests.  This will be analyzed and 
fixed in due course, and duly noted in the Contributors section.]

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¹  newer than NN 4.x would be preferable as I have not solved all backwards
   compatibility issues yet

> I am also concerned about the potential influence of competing
> personalities. If Thomas is given feedback or a suggestion from say,
> Stockton or David Mark in the usual sense that they do, will he be able
> and willing to filter through the noise for the signal?

I think I have already said yes to that:

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Crowdfunding for FAQ Maintainer dhtml <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> - 2013-10-06 12:37 -0700
  Re: Crowdfunding for FAQ Maintainer Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2013-10-07 12:55 +0000
    Re: Crowdfunding for FAQ Maintainer Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2013-10-07 14:02 +0100
  Re: Crowdfunding for FAQ Maintainer Dr J R Stockton <reply1300@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2013-10-07 19:56 +0100
    Re: Crowdfunding for FAQ Maintainer dhtml <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> - 2013-10-07 23:37 -0700
      Re: Crowdfunding for FAQ Maintainer Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2013-10-16 22:44 +0200
        Re: Crowdfunding for FAQ Maintainer "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2013-10-16 14:34 -0700
          Re: Crowdfunding for FAQ Maintainer Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-10-17 00:32 +0200
            Re: Crowdfunding for FAQ Maintainer "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2013-10-16 18:13 -0700
              [ES Matrix] Suggestions (was: Crowdfunding for FAQ Maintainer) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-10-17 04:20 +0200
                Re: [ES Matrix] Suggestions (was: Crowdfunding for FAQ Maintainer) "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2013-10-16 22:04 -0700
                Re: [ES Matrix] Suggestions (was: Crowdfunding for FAQ Maintainer) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-10-17 10:08 +0200
                Re: [ES Matrix] Suggestions (was: Crowdfunding for FAQ Maintainer) "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2013-10-17 07:38 -0700
                Re: [ES Matrix] Suggestions Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-10-19 03:50 +0200
                Re: [ES Matrix] Suggestions "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2013-10-21 20:54 -0700
                Re: [ES Matrix] Suggestions Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-10-23 21:27 +0200
                Re: [ES Matrix] Suggestions (was: Crowdfunding for FAQ Maintainer) Dr J R Stockton <reply1300@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2013-10-18 20:43 +0100
                Re: [ES Matrix] Suggestions Mike Duffy <md_002@videotron.ca> - 2013-10-18 21:39 -0400
  Re: Crowdfunding for FAQ Maintainer Cezary Tomczyk <cezary.tomczyk@gmail.com> - 2013-10-16 20:45 +0200
  Re: Crowdfunding for FAQ Maintainer "Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com> - 2013-10-17 09:13 +1100
  Re: Crowdfunding for FAQ Maintainer Adam Silver <adambsilver@gmail.com> - 2013-10-17 00:57 -0700
    Re: Crowdfunding for FAQ Maintainer "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2013-10-17 08:30 -0600
      Re: Crowdfunding for FAQ Maintainer "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2013-10-17 20:53 +0300
        Re: Crowdfunding for FAQ Maintainer Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2013-10-17 18:57 +0100
        Re: Crowdfunding for FAQ Maintainer Ed Jay <edMbj@aes-intl.com> - 2013-10-17 12:20 -0700

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