On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 01:52:00AM -0400, Ivica Bukvic wrote: > has no choice but to keep it as-is. Some would argue this is one potential > definition of a stalemate. OTOH, there are some of us who are less > concerned with legacy and more interested in faster development, which is
Something that always impressed me from the Perl community was Larry's idea of an Apocalypse for moving from 5 to 6 When a community gets 5+ years advanced notice of moving to a new chapter the stalemate issues have a mechanism to dissolve. A major _planned_ landmark/milestone also acts as a rallying point for debate and concrete decision making. The Perl5/6 split and rendezvous seems like a mature, farsighted way to handle modernising a codebase with complex community and legacy concerns. best, Andy -- Stop reading here _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
