Hi Doug,
2007/6/28, Doug Schepers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I understand and sympathize with your frustration. But I'd ask you to consider the relative weight of the importance of the naming convention.
Yes, I know it's not that important, but I still feel it's important. (thanks for your sympathy, though) And now I'm also being treated unfairly, in my opinion (or am I not?), which makes it impossible to ignore. (I really wish I could ignore this all, I really do :( )
In my view, it is far more important that this API be specified and implemented (and made available to authors) than to continue the debate about names. Considerable energy has already been invested in this debate, and though the outcome is not what I'd have thought best, the mere fact of the names being (in my view) suboptimal doesn't change the underlying functionality.
Sorry, but I just can't ignore it that there was a vote upon this, and that got just pushed away, without even mentioning or explaining it. Voting doesn't count, it seems. That's a bad thing, don't you think?
> Well, I won't "block any progress" from now on :( I didn't imply that dissent blocks progress.
Sorry, I meant that I won't participate anymore. I'm just getting unhappy by this and it's affecting the work that I really should be doing.
If anything, I contend that reopening an issue that was closed by the group had the potential to block progress, and that the editor is fortunate that others have not sought to press the issue. That some people were not happy with the naming convention decided by the group was insufficient cause to reopen the issue, since an equal number of people are now unhappy with the new names; it's worth saying that consensus is not the same as unanimity, but is a process whereby people decide the manner in which they will cooperate toward a mutually beneficial end.
Well, the way I see it is different. There was a vote on it, the editor didn't like it and went his own way. And now he (they?) got away with it, in "the interest of cooperating toward a mutually beneficial end"? I feel cheated :( Regards, Martijn
