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Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 02:16 PM 8/30/00 -0400, Karl Glazebrook wrote: > >subgroups should iron out there differences among themselves and come up > >with a coherent set of proposals. > > > >the final decision should not be in the hands of one person. > > Someone ultimately has to make the in or out decision. No one person has > ultimate control over the whole of perl, but individual pieces are in the > hands of single people. It's the best way, when the people with the > responsibility have good material to work with, to get the sort of artistic > integrity you really need for a coherent product. > My plan for this list is to strongly encourage RFC maintainers to work together to remove conflicts and incompatibilities from their RFCs. This will sometimes require retiring a number of RFCs and writing a new consolidated one. My hope is that we can have a single set of frozen RFCs in a month's time, with incompatible or redundant RFCs withdrawn. This is not my expectation, however. I expect that there will be some issues on which we fail to reach concensus. I these cases we should be able to identify the key issues we are at odds about and put them into conflicting RFCs that reference each other. In the end, I trust Larry to make good in-or-out decisions if we give him good input. We have a responsibility to try and find the 'right answer' where there is one, and compromise where it is appropriate.Thread Previous | Thread Next