Quality over quantity is a fine goal, but I don't think we can
honestly claim coin did a particularly good job on that. As has been
said, over 90 proposals were submitted. The majority of them were
horrid.

On Sep 16, 10:22 pm, markmahieu <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sep 16, 4:32 pm, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Why are you
> > surprised the community isn't putting in as many proposals as you
> > wanted? Putting in that much effort writing excruciatingly boring JLS
> > spec with virtually no guarantee is of course not going to find many
> > takers.
>
> I interpreted this quite differently - although the majority of us
> aren't able to write a JLS quality proposal, Joe wanted us to at least
> try to the best of our available time and ability, and in the process
> think more deeply, critically even, about our own respective
> proposals.
>
> Personally I found that to be the most interesting part by far, even
> though I can't claim to have done an amazing job of it.  Challenging?
> Certainly. Even disappointing sometimes when you realise that a
> favourite idea just doesn't cut it.  But excruciatingly boring?
> Really?
>
> Fundamentally, it was (and is) all about trying to tip the balance of
> ideas and analysis in favour of quality rather than quantity, for
> once.  That's always going to be hard.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
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