Indecision: DeveloperNew

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On February 8, 2007, John Tapsell wrote:
> A public poll?  Aren't we supposed to have some people allocated to
> make these trivial decisions so that things move along quickly? 

been there, done that, got the t-shirt with the bikeshed on it to prove it.

i'm not happy with this process, but i'm done fighting this particular battle 
and just want to get some results that aren't going to be met with flames, 
arguments and general discouragement.

we (those creating content on devnew) tried making a decision and it was met 
with resistance. to satisfy people we created a discussion page on the wiki. 
sadly, i don't think consensus amongst those actually involved has been 
swayed at all by the discussion since, well, it's all pretty arbitrary and 
the alternatives suggested haven't been remarkably better than what we 
started with. 

but if the devnew people simply say "we still prefer the original plan" it'll 
almost certainly be met with another bunch of unhelpful outbursts that will 
leave me unhappy and bitter (something i need to void) and us without a name 
(something i'd prefer to avoid).

and before you point out that it's hypocritical for people to object to having 
the people involved with a project name the project when that is exactly what 
we do with our software: i'm already aware of that irony. i also think it's 
pathetic, but don't feel empowered to do anything about it other than 
acquiesce.

> Isn't this one of the working group's job or something?

not really, no.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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