On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 3:11 PM atd...@gmail.com <atd...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 :)
Yes. I am not saying that the proposal was adopted because it had good support. I am arguing against the suggestion that the proposal should not have been adopted because it had a lot of critics. Ian > 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 withdrawn only because of active resistance by the community.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. -- 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/CAOyqgcUx7T3A4orhbDtY79Ubq%3DJryPM7ZwtdcJhb9q8oyDGS7A%40mail.gmail.com.
