On Aug 17, 2008, at 10:44 AM, Brendan Eich wrote: > Given the nature of standards bodies (Ecma is not uniquely challenged > in this regard), the process of making standards is like making > sausage. Don't look too closely, but do insist on hygiene and good > ingredients. > > That means design by committee, inevitable to some degree, should be > a matter of hammering out compromises on secondary issues: bike- > shedding the best name for a new method, e.g. The primary design > elements should come from actual implementations, general created by > individual design/implementation leads, and already proven to some > extent with non-trivial user communities.
Insisting on hygiene and good ingredients isn't enough -- you (the interested public in general) must be able to inspect the committee's sausage-making. Hence our desire for transparency via a public wiki with detailed meeting minutes. This reminds me: the redaction (if any) and publication of meeting minutes has fallen behind lately. I'll work with TC39 on this. /be _______________________________________________ Es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
