On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 4:02 PM, Gershom B
On November 6, 2015 at 10:49:14 PM, wren romano (wren@community.haskell.org) wrote:
The real problem is the growing divide in the community between the "liberals" vs the "conservatives". We could define these groups as those who're willing to break things vs want more stability, or as those who embrace polymorphism vs those who want to minimize mental type inference, or a few other ways I'm sure. How exactly we define the groups doesn't much matter imo; the point is: there are two groups which are growing ever more divergent from one another.
I think that a “two groups” model of the disputes we’ve had lately simplifies too much, and in fact runs the risk of tending to force a bunch of varying motives and concerns into only two buckets, which I worry will increase the contentiousness of discussions rather help to moderate things.
Oh, I totally agree. My point wasn't about the number of groups, nor about their organizing concerns; which I'd hoped to make clear by the last sentence quoted above. No, my point was that there is (at least one) rift in the community, that this rift is growing, that the real issue at hand is how we —as a community— should respond to that rift, and —perhaps most importantly to the current thread— that changing the procedures of collective decision making will not have an effective impact on that rift since the organizing concerns of the rift (whatever they may be) are not about issues of democratic control and representation but rather about issues of communal identity and mores. -- Live well, ~wren