On 12 October 2015 at 12:25, Evgeny Khramtsov <xramt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mon, 12 Oct 2015 09:48:07 -0300 > Ben Langfeld <b...@langfeld.me> wrote: > > > I'm afraid they'd be mistaken in this belief. > > Developers are bad, mmmkay. Not mad, but lazy. This is one of the defining and some might argue required traits of a software developer - it's what leads us to seek one-time solutions for otherwise repetitious tasks. Unfortunately it boils over into "that's someone else's job" sometimes, even when that "someone" can't be identified. > So what do you suggest? Teaching them to be > better? I bet that's not the goal of XSF. I think the solution is to > accept the fact developers do not want writing specs in general and act > accordingly. As an example: do not deprecate XEPs when there is no > replacement. >
