OpenEuphoria

Re: Source changes

• Posted by Juergen Luethje <j.lue at ?mx.de> Jul 03, 2007
• 664 views

Gary Shingles wrote:

> Juergen Luethje wrote:

<snip>

>> IMHO there should be a formal voting system ASAP.
> 
> The idea of voting sounds very democratic, however the way in which that
> voting
> system plays a part in the process of developing Euphoria, I am afraid, might
> become more bureaucratic than democratic.

Well said. 
I also would appreciate it, if the system would be as unbureaucratic as
possible.

> Besides, with this issue (I actually forget whether it is over get, or Derek's
> thing) 

Generally speaking, I'd like to have some kind of democratic voting on
changes in the front-end or the back-end as well as on changes in the
libraries coded in Euphoria that ship with the official release.

> what if you are correct and it should not be included, or done, but there
> is a vote and it is included, or done... wouldn't you rather have the
> opportunity
> to continue to discus something rather than having it all come to a final,
> binding,
> vote?

I'm not sure whether I do understand properly what you mean.
If there will be a change that I do not like, but for which there was a
democratic voting, then I'll have no problem to accept that change.
If there is a change that I do not like, and this change only happens
because someone who knows something about SVN and has some free time and
thinks it's a good idea to change the language according to his personal
preferences, then it might happen that I will not accept that change.

> If for example we did have a voting system for Euphoria "features", how would
> you see that working?  What would the process be?

Unfortunately, I have no experience in this regard, and so I have more
questions than answers. However, as far as libraries coded in Euphoria are
concerned, we already have a working and unbureaucratic voting system:
the micro economy. So we should use it whenever possible.

Rob recently wrote that he had read a book with the title
"Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything". Maybe in that
book there was something written about this topic? (Just a guess.)

I, personally, mainly felt that it is time now to start this discussion.

Regards,
   Juergen