On 23/03/2015 06:11, Ted Lemon wrote:
On Mar 22, 2015, at 11:58 AM, Alia Atlas <akatlas(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
If your concern is that you might obliviously misstep and be called
out on it - then yes - you may - and you may actually need to think
about it beforehand or learn from it afterwards. Welcome to life.
Thanks for saying this, Alia. I've been feeling a bit frustrated by this
conversation too, and not sure how to articulate that. I think you've hit
the nail on the head. When I think about this topic, I definitely consider
myself more likely to unwittingly (I hope!) engage in some kind of bad
behavior that would result in censure than being the subject of such bad
behavior. However, I would _much_ rather be taken aside and have that
pointed out to me than continue it or "get away" with it.
That is the point of this effort: not to make anybody miserable, but to
notice when things are going off the rails and put a stop to it before it
really gets bad.
We are quite capable of improving this through successive approximation,
whereas I don't think we can get it perfect on the
first try. We can't afford to just keep talking about it forever.
Indeed not. A BCP is an RFC, which means we can comment on it and amend it
if the running code has failure modes. I'd suggest one more spin following
the recent comments, which will probably just tune up a few words, one quick
check of those changes by counsel, and ship it.
We do need this done. I was quite shocked to discover that, but there it is,
so let's do it now.
Brian