Hi all, There seems to have been some heated discussion last night and I'd like to address a few things where there seems to be some confusion:
The act of accepting an XEP does not instantly make it the one-true-way to do things. Experimental XEPs are exactly that, experimental. They might catch on, be expanded, and eventually become XSF recommendations, or they might not. ProtoXEPs are not accepted as XEPs because someone on the council wants them to be, in fact a number of protoxeps have been accepted that I or others think are actually pretty bad. They're accepted because they are worth exploring or and most ideas, even if we don't especially like them, aren't worthy of being rejected out of hand (there are of course exceptions to every rule, but if there's generally disagreement about a topic that's probably a sign that it's not an exception and we should see the discussion through to the end). Most of the discussion happening here is the sort of discussion that should happen *after* a proposal has already become an XEP. Also, please refrain from ad hominem attacks against other people, or the council. It is not helpful. —Sam _______________________________________________ Standards mailing list Info: https://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/standards Unsubscribe: standards-unsubscr...@xmpp.org _______________________________________________
