On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 17:03, Matthew Brett <matthew.br...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > >> That is correct. And having failed to find a consensus solution and >> with several of the people doing the actual work disagreeing (which is >> neither you, nor I, nor Darren, nor most readers on this list who have >> weighed in on the discussion phase and may feel miffed about not >> getting a final vote), we move on to a vote from the steering >> committee to formalize that majority. > > I'm continuing only because, the discussion has generated some heat, > and I think part of that heat comes from the perception that the > excellent community spirit of the project is somewhat undermined by > the feeling that reasonable arguments are not being fully heard.
How does one get that feeling? > More generally I completely agree that the decisions have to be made > by the people doing the work, and that I'm not one of them. But, the > emphasis of the work on numpy has shifted from development to > maintenance, and I'm still not sure that the discussion thus far has > fully reflected that fact. Unfortunately, it's getting too late to address deficiencies in the breadth and depth of the already-too-extensive discussion. You should have spoken up sooner. We need to make a decision now. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
