On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 08:35:29AM -0800, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
igloo:
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 11:18:37AM +0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
This is moving in the opposite direction from what Ross suggests above - making the platform less of an aggregation mechanism and more of a single community project. Could it work? I'm not sure. Clearly Ross's model would "work", but it would produce something that's less like a platform.
Steering committee, I think we need to resolve this question before we can make progress. How should we proceed?
What is the question?
Should the HP attempt to provide: A set of packages that are popular and meet certain quality standards or: A set of packages that are popular, meet certain quality standards and have a consistent API ?
I don't think libraries@ has a mandate to change the current HP goals
Surely someone must have a mandate to change them? Also, what is the current goal? I thought it was the second one, but I don't know whether or not I am in a minority. Thanks Ian