On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 08:52:15AM -0700, Adam Chlipala wrote: > > contradictory decisions are the accepted right ones. This is probably a > bad sign about our decision-making firmware. ;) > > Any suggestions on what we should do differently?
> I would like to suggest that docelic, in particular, should watch out > for saying that things are done some way "just because." While this > might often be OK from an objective viewpoint, it doesn't go over so > well from an emotional standpoint. For example, in justifying use of > CVS, I think a discussion like the one I included above would have been > more appropriate. Different people might be aware of different subsets > of the reasons for preferring some option, so it can't hurt to remind > them and nip future perceptions of arbitrary will imposition in the bud. If I say (or give impression of saying) "just because", then the obvious continuation of that is "... because we already made a decision about this at some previous time. And if you want to change it now -- it isn't time nor place to do it in the middle of an ongoing procedure that is not directly related to it". And this isn't strangers-talk; this is a hcoop-sysadmin thread among the actual people who should know the situation. -doc _______________________________________________ HCoop-SysAdmin mailing list [email protected] http://hcoop.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hcoop-sysadmin
