On Tuesday, 11 March 2014 at 18:01:23 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
The buck does stop with Walter and Andrei. What you're seeing
is community discussion, which informs their ultimate
decisions. Are you saying that people shouldn't be discussing
language decisions and that it should just be left to a couple
of people?
Also, of course Walter can decide not to do something due to
community pressure. He has the ultimate say, it's his language,
but that doesn't mean he shouldn't listen.
I'm probably thinking more of some organization where if a
discussion went off scale, something would happen, like a vote on
the 3 main protagonists.
If those 3 were not willing or able to get together and come up
with a compromise, then the status quo should prevail until W/A
decide otherwise.
Lacking some compromise of that sort, D just becomes Balkanized.
It did, and it recovered, but I think it sets things back.
Steve
