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....
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