I am in favor of the proposal but I think that accounting for popularity votes is not a good measure of things. A lot of people are at various stages of their technical journey in computer science and engineering and there has to be a weight given to the more technical opinions that is not reflected in the github upvote/downvote system. At one point, everyone would have upvoted that the earth was flat.
Just a note in passing :) On Monday, March 15, 2021 at 11:03:50 PM UTC+1 Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 5:08 AM Space A. <reexi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > For example, the multiple proposals that flowed out of > > > https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/go2draft-error-handling-overview.md > . > > None of them have been adopted. > > > > I remember what was happening to "try" error handling proposal. It was > withdrawn only because of active resistance by the community. > > > > And what's happened to a new "generics" proposal, it also got a lot of > critics but was "accepted" in less than a month after formal publication on > github. As Russ said "No change in consensus". What does it mean? Who are > these people who can change the consensus? How was it measured? A few days > after Russ locked it, so nobody can even say a word against it if they > wanted. So it looks very much that company management learned from "try" > proposal. > > The design draft was put up for discussion for months before it became > a formal proposal. It was not new. > > The formal proposal (https://golang.org/issue/43651) got 1784 thumbs > up and 123 thumbs down (and ten "confused"). Yes, there were critics. > But I think it is fair to say that the proposal has far more > supporters than critics. > > The "no change in consensus" comment refers to the discussion after > the proposal was moved to "likely accept" status: > https://github.com/golang/go/issues/43651#issuecomment-772744198. > After it was marked as "likely accept", there was no change to the > consensus that it should be accepted. (Note that the "likely accept" > comment got 60 thumbs up and 0 thumbs down (and one "confused").) > > None of this is anything like the "try" proposal > (https://golang.org/issue/32437), which had 318 thumbs up and 794 > thumbs down (and 132 "confused"). > > Ian > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/932a39b7-be1b-4c15-b7c8-f99fce730b0en%40googlegroups.com.
