Alex Shinn scripsit: > It's condescending and rude to reply "because that's how we > voted." There were many rationales involved, and the most > helpful service we can do for the community is to summarize > those rationales to the best of our ability, and document (as > we already have) how the process works.
It can be put condescendingly and rudely, yes. I usually say something like "Unfortunately, due to the fact that most issues are voted on rather than debated extensively, and most voters don't provide rationales, there is no committee-level rationale for that choice." I've said similar things, less verbosely, on this list. -- John Cowan <[email protected]> http://www.ccil.org/~cowan One time I called in to the central system and started working on a big thick 'sed' and 'awk' heavy duty data bashing script. One of the geologists came by, looked over my shoulder and said 'Oh, that happens to me too. Try hanging up and phoning in again.' --Beverly Erlebacher _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports
