From: Dan Sugalski <dan@...>
Date: 2002-09-05T06:53:39+09:00
Subject: RE: suggestions to the Ruby community

At 6:06 AM +0900 9/5/02,  JamesBritt wrote:
>  >
>>  The best course of action is generally to pay some attention to all
>>  the conversation, but not too much attention to the conversation
>>  involving people not actually doing anything. Saves much hassle and
>>  aggrivation.
>
>So, discussing a problem should not be considered doing something?
>What's the criteria for "doing something"?

Discussing a problem is doing something, but only for the first day 
or so. If nothing much has happened past that point, or the 
conversation has mostly converged on a solution, odds are that it 
won't.

Occasionally things work differently, but even in large projects it 
mostly goes this way.
-- 
                                         Dan

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