On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Joseph Darcy <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Reinier Zwitserloot > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> On Sep 15, 11:28 pm, Bob Lee <[email protected]> wrote: >> > > [snip] > > > >> he people you want input from would have >> needed 24 full hours or more, and would instead have the knowledge >> that the effort has at best slim chances of making it in. Why are you >> surprised the community isn't putting in as many proposals as you >> wanted? > > > I would actually have preferred many fewer proposals of higher quality > being submitted. Being able to focus on 10-20 proposals would have been more > producive. The proposals could have been moderated before hitting the list > to provide an initial vetting, but at least this first time around we did > want to turn people away before "approaching the doorstep." Future projects > may make different tradeoffs. > > I will repeat: no one was obliged to send in proposals to Project Coin. > Attempts were made to set expectations before the call for proposals > started. Evolving the language in a responsible fashion is a lot fo work. > Coin invited others to participate in that work and, yes, that work can be > time consuming. My numerous blog entries on the subject should have made > clear changing the Java language is not a trivial undertaking. > > A PS to my earlier message, getting a new feature into the language is not the only possible benefit of diligently filling in the Coin proposal form. If increased knowledge and understanding of the language results from that exercise, that benefit exists regardless of what happens to the actual proposal. How one values such detailed Java language knowledge is another question :-) -Joe --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
