Re: Queue

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

Well, people posting a variety of ideas is not all bad - but at some point
this has to narrow down to a set of optional courses of action and a
decision needs to be taken as to which option to persue. If a set of three
or four options were posted on AdaPower & a vote taken, we could probably
all ralley around the flag and start arguing about how to
enhance/improve/extend the chosen course of development.

If this were a corporate endeavor - or sponsored by a corporate endeavor,
the product owner/boss would have declared an autocratic and arbitrary
course of action and we'd have all been told to sit down, shut up and get to
work making the game plan successful. :-) I'm sure that once a decision is
taken on this, most of us would be willing to pull together and get some
version of it working. The problem is that this is barely a democracy - if
even close to that. Any one or more of us can pick up our marbles and go
home at any time and if enough of us do that, the whole effort collapses.

IMHO, if we're serious about wanting this, we ought to agree on some set of
choices/design directions/whatever and toss a coin to select a winner. From
there, I'm sure we could collaborate to get any enhancements, extensions or
implementation done.

MDC
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"Ehud Lamm" <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il> wrote in message
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>
> Exactly.
> That's why I wanted the central repository to be on AdaPower, and the
> discussion to be here.
> It all started falling apart when people started posting their favorite
> ideas on their own web pages. This is exactly the situation we started
with.
> We are now trying to work on consolidation, not to show our creativity
(not
> that I have anything against all the itneresting suggestions, I just don't
> think they advance the cause...)
>