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On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 08:35:04PM -0400, Adam Turoff wrote: > The one idea that I left the p5p meeting with is that we need *more* > responsibility, *more* chairpeople/pumpkings and *more* direction. You cannot manufacture order out of chaos by adding managers. :) > In this manner, p6p can exist much like p5p, with a chosen few watching > the list slightly more closely than everyone else to make sure all > important concerns behind Perl6 are met. > > Of course, this doesn't rule out mjd's idea of small mailing lists > that are created quickly and disbanded quickly. Such rapid evolution > would aid the creation of an RFC or two, with the mailing list timed > to die when the RFC was released/accepted. *nodnod*. This is kinda like the idea I floated a few days ago, with groups spinning off the debate the real technical end of an area, then throwing back summaries and picking up comments from the main list. It's vaguely how Linux works. Maybe the mail I wrote about this got lost in the fog. OK, you win, we need *some* kind of RFC announcements. :) I dunno, maybe just a "This is not drivel" tag in the subject line or something... -- It took the computational power of three Commodore 64s to fly to the moon. It takes a 486 to run Windows 95. Something is wrong here.