On 29 August 2016 at 17:39, Kosyrev Serge
Gershom B writes:
I might understand the concern about archiving, but haskell-cafe solves that. And "the committee can't be expected to follow discussions" and "is empowered to act" does sound like "the committee can't be expected to listen to the community”.
Technical issues ought to be decided on their technical substance, not through popularity contests, aren't they?
Such discussions should be based on appropriate evidence. And for software, user satisfaction is certainly relevant. In particular, if a technical argument suggests a software should satisfy its users better, and users aren't satisfied, the argument seems poorly predictive.
And if we are to choose one medium
I specifically mentioned haskell-cafe since it's a mailing list. Of course, if you really wanted to poll the community, a mailing list has no support for aggregation and won't scale. Cheers, -- Paolo G. Giarrusso - Ph.D. Student, Tübingen University http://ps.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/team/giarrusso/