> Another point to make is a video I saw recently by the SVN guys, who > claimed that the amount of discussion which centers around a decision > is inversely proportional to how important it is. They related a story > where the project nearly forked and many feelings were hurt over > something ten times more trivial than this topic. Just for perspective.
By the way, I just rediscovered the video, and the topic was actually whether or not to have spaces before parentheses. They didn't actually almost fork, but there was a vast vote, where people who hadn't contributed for a long time were being lobbied to..... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
