From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,80b3e504140e89fd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-19 18:35:06 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!newshub.sdsu.edu!west.cox.net!cox.net!p02!news2.east.cox.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D113110.6000801@telepath.com> From: Ted Dennison User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Config_Files proposal References: <4519e058.0206190708.2ef205e4@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 01:35:07 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.12.51.201 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cox.net X-Trace: news2.east.cox.net 1024536907 68.12.51.201 (Wed, 19 Jun 2002 21:35:07 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 21:35:07 EDT Organization: Cox Communications Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:26449 Date: 2002-06-20T01:35:07+00:00 List-Id: Stephen Leake wrote: > Ok. Good question. I guess I'm learning how to do consensus on a > newsgroup. With the Lists stuff, often I would just pick a choice, start arguing its merits, and wait to see if anyone screamed. If no one complains: bingo! :-) You should probably at least post the merits and drawback of each approach, as you see it. Presumably others will do the same if they think you missed something. > If we end up with an overwhelming majority for one format, I'll take > that as consensus. If it's close, or there are only a few votes, I'll > be back :). The problem with a vote is there is no real weight on it, and no good idea of the rationale behind the numbers. The nightmare scenario is that the majority was just going with the flow to get things moving, while the minority voting against it had a damn good reason. The other issue with getting consensus is that we want to make sure we don't leave %49 or %32 of everyone behind every time we make a decision. We need as near to a universal buy-in as we can get.