On 16/12/06, Jeff Raymond jeff.raymond@internationalhouseofbacon.com wrote:
We're not privy to a lot of the discussion they have on their mailing list, but I have no doubts in my mind that they discussed this quite a bit. Thus the extra motions, thus the extra time for deliberation. Even if the result did not come in a way I favored, I wouldn't be able to criticize them for lack of consideration, and I don't think that's fair.
I'm not on the AC but I am on the list (and am a listadmin), and I don't think I'm giving anything away by confirming that the matter has been discussed afresh at great length. Not everyone agrees by a long shot, but this is a really hard one and there's no way everyone would be happy with any result. But then, that's why being on the AC is hard work.
If anything, I hope the 5 new folks who'll come on board show the same care.
What tends to happen is a month or two of enthusiasm then burnout, from dealing with wholesale quantities of the most corrosive industrial-strength stupid to be found in wikidom. This is a tricky one to try to work past ...
- d.