On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 9:10 AM, R.I.Pienaar <[email protected]> wrote: > the overall point is there are features that are not designed in a way I > believe has everyones needs in mind and certainly hasnt had community input.
I have to admit I was absent from the community when parameterized classes were introduced as my day job was taking all my time, but did we really *never* send anything out about it other than the patch submissions to puppet-dev ? I thought I'd seen proposals seeking feedback before 2.6.0. If this wasn't the case, then that was a screwup. As far as fixing the situation we're in now though, I've been pushing people to provide feedback on: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/5046 I would love to see your proposals for improving the situation there RI. > The language design process needs to be improved so that the result is less > inconsistent and weird. I agree. I think this is partly a consequence of us generally accepting patches without having serious curation and discussion of the consequences, and partly due to our community being largely made up of sysadmins who are time-poor, with small scraps of time here and there to devote to this sort of discussion. It's a difficult line to tread, as going too far in the other direction means we're rejecting too many contributions from the community, and no-one wants to be in that situation. So lets fix this. What do we need? A formalized group that takes the time to have oversight over language changes according to general principles we've agreed on? How official does this need to be? A full on committee with rotating roles and elections etc etc ? A volunteer group whose membership is completely ad hoc? Why aren't we getting the right feedback on the Dev/User lists when proposals are sent out? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" 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/puppet-users?hl=en.
