Hello! I have been sitting in the sun pondering all this for an hour or so now, and there is a lot to say, I think. But we should get this out of the way first:
On Sat 19 Mar 2011 15:06, Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> writes: > As a meta-comment: I've grown rather weary from fighting this battle > alone. My hacking has completely stopped because of this argument. To > those of you out there who care about this issue, please let your voices > be heard. I know you're there, because a few of you stated your > opinions rather strongly on IRC. If others don't join in soon, I'm > likely to soon give up on this, and be left with rather less enthusiasm > for Guile than when I started, I'm sorry to say. Have patience :) We will get there in time. The process of consensus-building is work. This is a very important decision to make, and its engineering implications are large. We've only been discussing it for a week :) Wide-ranging opinions are important, but ultimately the impacts of this decision rest on the shoulders of the maintainers of this code, which up to now has mostly been Mike, and to an extent Ludovic and myself. It goes without saying that we would be most pleased to have your hack-power pointed in its direction, but we need to all be on the same page. There's no need for the "fighting battles" here; military metaphors simply don't apply to hackers needing to understand each other and talk over a problem. If it's stressing you out, I suggest focusing on something else for the meantime. I suspect this thread will go on for at least a couple more weeks. At the end of it, whenever it ends, I hope we will all agree on the right thing to do. Peace, Andy -- http://wingolog.org/
