Re: [Distutils] Brian Goetz - Stewardship: the Sobering Parts

2015-11-01 Thread Robert McGibbon
Hi, Thanks for sharing that video, Donald. In context, I don't think it's fair to characterize the speaker's perspective as *dangerous*, or of categorically favoring current users over potential new users. Obviously there are a lot of tradeoffs around backward compatibility, and no one-sized-fits

Re: [Distutils] Brian Goetz - Stewardship: the Sobering Parts

2015-11-01 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 31 October 2015 at 14:15, Wayne Werner wrote: > First, do no harm, eh? I haven't had time to watch it yet so I don't have the full context of the observation, but that's only true if current users are considered categorically more important than future users. That's a dangerous line of thinkin

Re: [Distutils] Brian Goetz - Stewardship: the Sobering Parts

2015-10-31 Thread Wayne Werner
First, do no harm, eh? (only 14 minutes into it so far) On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 3:51 PM, Donald Stufft wrote: > This was shown to me today, and I thought I’d share it here since it > pretty much applies 100% to what we’re doing on this list too (other than > the fact the examples are from Java)

[Distutils] Brian Goetz - Stewardship: the Sobering Parts

2015-10-29 Thread Donald Stufft
This was shown to me today, and I thought I’d share it here since it pretty much applies 100% to what we’re doing on this list too (other than the fact the examples are from Java) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y5Pv4yN0b0 - Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5