On November 7, 2010 12:54:38 Gregory Collins wrote:
Another point I would like to make is that unless I'm mistaken, even if text is accepted into the platform, that doesn't mean that maintainership of the library is assigned to libraries@haskell.org: it stays with Bryan. Given that he's repeatedly stated that the API is the way that it is because that's the way he *wants* it to be, and he has a plausible rationale for this, this entire discussion is MOOT and we should immediately stop wasting time and move to a vote on accepting text as-is.
+1 As Greg pointed out, it really sounds like Bryan likes his names and is not offering to create/maintain an alternatively named version, so the outcome of this name discussion is not prerequisite for voting on accepting his package. Not saying that this whole discussion about the pro's and con's of various naming schemes is not potentially valuable, just that it doesn't require an resolution to get on with voting on the proposed Data.Text addition. Further, even if he was offering to change the names, it seems that the community is about evenly split, and, in that case, it seems only fair to go with the author's preference out of respect to the fact that he did the work. Cheers! -Tyson PS: Am I even suppose to be voting? The more people that get to vote, the more we can be assured to never get better than average (yay committees). I believe one of Linux's strong advantages is having Linus helps avoid this.