1. Sequnce of sequence
A recent comment from CChris made me think that the position with two polls I
conducted on this list may have been misunderstood.
I conducted polls on sequence of sequence and typing/naming of sequence elements
and wrote up the results as web pages. I uploaded them to SourceFourge documents
folder which said that the administrator had to check them before release. I had
in mind that the administrator (presumably Rob) would get a message about this
automatically. I'm not sure whether this happened, and failed follow it up.
No issues about any of this, except that CChris suggested that the sequence of
sequnce proposal had been shelved because of subsequent discussions about the
appropriate syntax. I didn't understand it this way. The polls led to clear
results on certain questions, even though they are not yet implemented.
I feel that polling from time to time is a good way to resolve issues when the
community is agreed in principle but may not be able to agree unanimously on
syntax. The results should be available on the website as a guide to decisions
made but possibly not yet implemented.
If there is an administrator out there, could you check the files and open them
to the public? I have copies.
Peter Robinson
2. Re: Sequnce of sequence
Peter Robinson wrote:
>
> A recent comment from CChris made me think that the position with two polls
> I conducted on this list may have been misunderstood.
>
> I conducted polls on sequence of sequence and typing/naming of sequence
> elements
> and wrote up the results as web pages. I uploaded them to SourceFourge
> documents
> folder which said that the administrator had to check them before release. I
> had in mind that the administrator (presumably Rob) would get a message about
> this automatically. I'm not sure whether this happened, and failed follow it
> up.
>
> No issues about any of this, except that CChris suggested that the sequence
> of sequnce proposal had been shelved because of subsequent discussions about
> the appropriate syntax. I didn't understand it this way. The polls led to
> clear
> results on certain questions, even though they are not yet implemented.
>
> I feel that polling from time to time is a good way to resolve issues when the
> community is agreed in principle but may not be able to agree unanimously on
> syntax. The results should be available on the website as a guide to decisions
> made but possibly not yet implemented.
>
> If there is an administrator out there, could you check the files and open
> them
> to the public? I have copies.
>
> Peter Robinson
Just to be clear: there was no criticism about the polls themselves in the
comment. Quite the contrary, actually; I wish there had been more of them in
earlier years. Many earlier discussions got shelved in part because there was no
poll following up, and some got shelved in spite of there being a poll.
The only issue I'd raise is about how representative the voters are of the whole
community the results may have some impact on. Since we don't know (any finger
raised?), we can unsafely assume that of course we are. We are not in a large
number enough for the law of large numbers to help us achieve some otherwise
untested representativity.
I could even volunteer to organise and monitor some polling.
CChris
