The Cunctator wrote:
Of course I can. But can you see my point, too? Can
you see how
decisions made by a few dozen people is not much different from
decisions made by one person, in comparison to a population of, say, one
million, or even ten thousand?
In the abstract, I can see your point. But, right now, we have only a
few dozen people who care about policy, and we need to make sure to
reach all of them. When we are ten thousand policy-interested people
in the future, well, we will have to find a mechanism in the future to
accomodate that growth.
Certainly, random bold updating of policy pages is not likely to be an
effective mechanism at that point for the communication of policy
changes. Nor is talking about it casually in email.
Fortunately, though, we don't have those problems today. Today, as we
are doing here and now, we talk about policy primarily on the mailing
list. This has proven to be better, all round, than the alternatives.
--Jimbo