"To table" is a contranym in both the US and the UK.
On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 9:53 AM MRAB wrote:
> On 2022-02-20 17:56, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> > Gerrit Holl writes:
> >
> > > If voting is limited to a select group (which could be as small as
> > > Python core developers, or as large
On 2022-02-20 17:56, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Gerrit Holl writes:
> If voting is limited to a select group (which could be as small as
> Python core developers, or as large as anyone who has ever had a pull
> request merged into cpython, or something in-between), then a vote
> could
Gerrit Holl writes:
> If voting is limited to a select group (which could be as small as
> Python core developers, or as large as anyone who has ever had a pull
> request merged into cpython, or something in-between), then a vote
> could be a way to measure opinions after a lengthy discussion
On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 04:38:37PM +0100, Gerrit Holl wrote:
> A problem with most online votes is that participation is
> self-selected. There is no way to measure turnout, and therefore, it
> is impossible to tell how representative the voters are for the
> community at large.
I'm sure that
On Sun, 20 Feb 2022 at 08:05, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > There is no way to make a popular vote fair.
>
> That's an odd take.
>
> A better take is that, fair or not, popularity is not necessarily a good
> judge of what works well in a language. Language design requires skill
> and taste, and it
Hey Christ,
We can always think in terms of weighted vote, the more your account is
"well-established"
(either by being ancient or by contributing) the more it's vote has weight.
Anyway, just a suggestion.
Regards,
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SENHAJI RHAZI Hamza
Le dim. 20 févr. 2022 à 09:43, Chris Angelico a écrit
On Sun, 20 Feb 2022 at 18:05, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
> On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 06:04:28AM +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
> > Popularity is a *terrible* way to judge ideas. I'm currently fighting
> > with another platform on that same topic.
>
> Can we ask which platform?
Not on-list, out of
On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 06:04:28AM +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Popularity is a *terrible* way to judge ideas. I'm currently fighting
> with another platform on that same topic.
Can we ask which platform?
> All you can see from a system like that is how many of the popular
> ideas get
Democracy has its pros and cons. ...RM
On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 10:57 AM Samuel Muldoon
wrote:
> *The python-ideas mailing list is a very cumbersome way to vet changes to
> the Python interpreter or other aspects of the python language. If the
> power-that-be would work with GetSatisfaction
On Sat, 19 Feb 2022 at 05:56, Samuel Muldoon wrote:
> The python-ideas mailing list is a very cumbersome way to vet changes to the
> Python interpreter or other aspects of the python language. If the
> power-that-be would work with GetSatisfaction people to make a copy-cat of
> the
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