>> semi-rant warning: >> >> This whole badge/logo business seems to me to be an excellent example >> of Parkinson's law of triviality (choosing the colour of the >> bikeshed). We have a large (too large) number of variations on >> relatively few themes and a really sophisticated voting system, but >> no very clear idea of what they're for and no explanation (such as my >> "of type Haskell" >> above) of why the candidates are the way they are. >> >> I didn't join in much to the earlier discussion because I thought >> things would work out to something sensible in the end, but it >> doesn't look like that happened. Work out what the problem is before >> putting the solution up for election! > > I agree with this. I have voted, but as with many others I found the > process very cumbersome, and I don't think it really expresses my > opinions > properly. I'm concerned that this process may well end up producing a > outcome that's worse than the current situation but will have some aura > of legitimacy because of the vote.
I totally agree. I haven't voted, because if I had an hour to spare I'd much rather spend the time actually writing Haskell. I can't rank 100's of logos, realistically anything more than about 10 and I don't have a chance of even figuring out which is my favourite. Thanks Neil _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
