[Foundation-l] Pending Changes development update: September 27

[Michael Snow]

David Gerard wrote:
> On 28 September 2010 23:12, Risker <risker.wp at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> You're losing the hearts and minds battle here, guys.
>>     
> There'll be new hearts and minds along in eighteen months.
>   
Come now, regardless of how one feels about the status of this 
particular feature (one for which community views and consensus have 
always been a challenge to interpret, so I would be happy to see a 
little less strident claims about what the current consensus is or 
isn't): The notion that we can just pass over disagreement based on 
participant turnover smacks of treating people as disposable, and is 
really inappropriate. We would be better off with more people working 
seriously to figure out the best answers to the issues this feature 
addresses, plus whatever issues there may be with the feature itself, 
rather than having a debating duel about the significance of a set of 
polling statistics. It's like having politicians decide how to govern 
entirely based on opinion polls.

--Michael Snow