On Wednesday, 2 December 2015 at 12:40:59 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
It's a question of process. When a poll should return results
meaningful for motivating plans of action, it is conducted in
roughly the following manner:
0. It is decided that a poll makes sense. (Ideally by means
previously agreed upon.)
1. The consequences of the different outcomes are specified.
2. Arguments for each option are made available. (Somewhat
optional, but there certainly shouldn't be any bias and/or
vitriol in the original announcement!)
3. Steps are taken to ensure everyone affected gets a
reasonable chance to vote. (Ideally, those who are not affected
should not be allowed to vote, but that is hard to enforce in
practice.)
4. The voting takes place, with a deadline defined well in
advance.
5. The consequences that were initially specified are applied
(after the poll has closed).
To support those points, just re-check the results. Since this
thread has started (with a suggestion to take actions based on
the poll), the answers have basically evened out. It is
currently at 48% vs 52%:
http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=565587f4e4b0b3955a59fb67
This effect wasn't as strong when I wrote my previous post, but
it does not surprise me at all. I myself have still not taken
the poll of the troll, and I am quite confident that there are
others with a similar stance.
I, for my part, didn't vote and do not intend to do so. We need a
pragmatic solution, not a subjective opinion poll. A pragmatic
solution, imo, would be to revert dub to default to JSON, and
keep SDL as a second option (which will be convertible to JSON
with the next version anyway). The less-known format should be
the second option, not the default.
