There's a lot of fairness in Bruce's suggestion. Certainly when discussing the library anything that doesn't garner a very wide majority of the support might well be a bad idea. Anyway, I prefer to have a problem before solving it.
Richard. On Aug 16, 6:28 pm, Bruce Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > I vote against making any use of "formal" voting. :-) > > Seriously, I think when a controversy remains, it is worth taking the > trouble to continue discussing it until a near-consensus arises. This can > happen because almost everyone gets convinced, or because some people > voluntarily defer to others who they respect or who are doing more of the > work, or because they agree to put something off for now because it's not > worth continuing to discuss it right now. This informally allows the > community to have more influential members, without requiring a formalized > "insider group" that alienates some people. Anyone who "loses an argument" > is always allowed to keep arguing if it's important enough to them or if > things change. Whereas a vote would artificially cut off discussion. (And > besides, the decision about when to hold the vote, and what exactly to vote > on, would have to be made somehow....) > > That said, I agree with others who are eager for clarification from Alex > (and/or Richard) about how much and what kind of influence he hopes or > expects to continue having. (And personally, I hope it's as much as > possible.) > > - Bruce > > On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Richard Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > ... > > A decision making process would be nice. We could easily hold such > > votes in a invitation only group managed by all the committers.... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pyglet-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/pyglet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
