Chris Devers said: > Advocacy *doesn't* work well. > But beyond keeping sites like that prominent, there's not really a lot > that can be done, pragmatically speaking, that seems likely to help.
This is the same "I can't see how it will work, so it must not be possible" line of reasoning. Just because you can't see an answer, doesn't mean the bazaar couldn't come up with one. > Adam's points are reasonable. > > I don't see why he's being attacked for voicing them. Adam gave an artificial either/or condition. Either advocate OR write cool scripts. But it doesn't work that way. Someone might not be interested in supporting perl the one way that you want to see everyone support it. Some might want to write boring documentation. Some might take on the thankless task of verification. If you prohibit them from doing what they want that doesn't mean they'll suddenly do what YOU want. If someone wants to advocate, telling them they should write cool perl scripts instead, means they might end up doing nothing. it isn't either/or. And saying it isn't either/or isn't attacking him. _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
