OpenEuphoria

Re: Process

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at ?apidEuph?ria.com> Aug 22, 2007
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Peter Robinson wrote:
> Recently Rob posted suggesting (in effect) that the people who put proposals
> for change should take charge of following them up. Several have expressed
> varying
> levels of frustration or confusion with this process, or lack of it.
> 
> I'm going to take up Rob's idea in relation to these proposals - sequence of
> integer, typing elements of a sequence-object within a type block, and
> aliasing
> elements within a type block. I didn't have anything to do with the first
> thread,
> but it's related to the others and no one is owning it.
> 
> If the community doesn't want me to do this, please feel free to speak up. I
> won't mind.
> 
> There seemed to be enough common ground in these to warrant a vote. I will go
> through the threads and try to get a couple of candidates (concrete syntax)
> for each that can be voted on. I'll ignore my own comments and ideas and look
> for common ground among other contributors. One variation for each may be too
> few (and too hard to choose which one). More than 2 or 3 may just split the
> vote indecisively.
> 
> I'll simply act as the manager of the process. 
> 
> It may take me a few days, but I'll get there. I'm not acquainted with what
> documentation exists on the site already, but I have in mind that all
> decisions,
> positive or negative, should be recorded - so there'll be a TODO list (for
> successful
> proposals) and a REJECT list (for unsuccessful ones). The reject list will
> avoid
> repeated ventilation of the same issues - not that anything is set in stone.
> 
> In some of the threads, people might not have contributed before for reasons
> other than disinterest. Since I'll be using the threads to make selections,
> feel free to wade in now. Preferably you could post to the relevant thread,
> not this thread.

That's fine with me. Thanks.

I've been busy lately setting up my new dual-core Vista computer,
and preparing 3.1.1. Every now and then, I'd like to see a 
clear proposal that I can think about. I'm sure others would too.

With the flurry of ideas that are tossed around on this
forum, I think many people don't have time to keep up,
and assume anyway that nothing will ever be decided, so why
bother trying to follow the discussion.
A concrete proposal, or package of related proposals
that can be voted on separately, might help focus people's minds.

With software being so flexible, it may be hard to 
immediately come to an agreement on all the details,
so maybe we'll need to have some sort of "vote in principle" 
followed by a vote on some of the important details.
Of course, down at a certain level of detail you just have to
trust the developer(s) who are going to actually do the work.

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com