On 07/18/2018 03:04 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
Hi Ethan,
Le 18/07/2018 à 11:49, Ethan Furman a écrit :
You're creating a huge problem here. Whatever dictator you come up
with, not everyone will be ok with that choice. What are they supposed
to do? If one doesn't think X is legitimate as a dictator, how does one
keep contributing to the project? In other words, you are threatening
to exclude people, perhaps seasoned contributors.
I find this an empty argument. What were they supposed to do when PEPs they
wanted were rejected, and PEPs they thought
foolish accepted?
I'm not sure what you mean? I may disagree with my governement's
decisions without wanting to overthrow the whole regime (or, conversely,
I may agree with some of a despot's decisions without finding him
legitimate to make those decisions). Disagreeing with a PEP has nothing
to do with this discussion, has it?
If we, by majority vote, pick a governance model (dictator, council, or whatever), then that legitimizes it. If we, by
majority vote, pick the new BDFL, then that legitimizes it. Being unhappy with the choice does not make the choice
illegitimate.
If we go with a committee are we threatening to exclude those who
think design-by-committee is not a legitamate method, or don't think
>> it's members are legitimate choices?
If we're talking about a dictator (this is Barry's proposal), we're not
talking about someone that just makes language design decisions,
I was asking about how objecting to the currently chosen dictator would be any different from objecting to the currently
chosen council members.
as Victor pointed out.
Where did he point this out? I don't see an email, although I might just be
missing it.
--
~Ethan~
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