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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fdc75443ea18fb32 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-27 14:32:11 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!psinet-eu-nl!psiuk-p4!psiuk-p3!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Queue Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 17:13:45 -0500 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9u136q$aa$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: <%QRM7.39743$xS6.65958@www.newsranger.com> <9u0qhb$pq5$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9u0ujd$rhg$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9u10bt$ake$1@news.huji.ac.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1006899226 330 136.170.200.133 (27 Nov 2001 22:13:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 Nov 2001 22:13:46 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:17069 Date: 2001-11-27T22:13:46+00:00 List-Id: Well, people posting a variety of ideas is not all bad - but at some point this has to narrow down to a set of optional courses of action and a decision needs to be taken as to which option to persue. If a set of three or four options were posted on AdaPower & a vote taken, we could probably all ralley around the flag and start arguing about how to enhance/improve/extend the chosen course of development. If this were a corporate endeavor - or sponsored by a corporate endeavor, the product owner/boss would have declared an autocratic and arbitrary course of action and we'd have all been told to sit down, shut up and get to work making the game plan successful. :-) I'm sure that once a decision is taken on this, most of us would be willing to pull together and get some version of it working. The problem is that this is barely a democracy - if even close to that. Any one or more of us can pick up our marbles and go home at any time and if enough of us do that, the whole effort collapses. IMHO, if we're serious about wanting this, we ought to agree on some set of choices/design directions/whatever and toss a coin to select a winner. From there, I'm sure we could collaborate to get any enhancements, extensions or implementation done. MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Ehud Lamm" wrote in message news:9u10bt$ake$1@news.huji.ac.il... > > 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...) >