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[ruby-talk:01744] Re: comp.lang.ruby RFD: withdraw or proceed?

From: "Conrad Schneiker" <schneiker@...>
Date: 2000-03-06 04:29:19 UTC
List: ruby-talk #1744
From: Dat Nguyen <thucdat@hotmail.com>

> Q1: How many votes are there currently?

Good question, but I don't really have any good idea. That's one reason for
my note.

For yes votes, I'm sure we can count on the 10-20 people that have posted on
comp.lang.misc and the 10-20 people that post most often on this mail list
(which overlap), but I have no idea how many more people who read this would
vote, since most mail list readers don't participate in discussions. I
suppose we might get another 10-20 yes votes from friendly people on
comp.lang.perl, comp.lang.python, and comp.lang.java.programmer. From
news.groups we might get 40 or 50 no votes and maybe 20 or 30 yes votes. All
of these are wild guesses.

> Q2: If withdraw now, what to do to make sure in 3 months there will be
more
> than enough votes?

Use comp.lang.misc as much as possible.

Also set up a 2-way gateway between ruby-talk ML and comp.lang.misc (which
would put all ruby-talk ML traffic on comp.lang.misc, and which would copy
anything in comp.lang.misc with ruby|Ruby|RUBY in the subject line to the
ruby-talk ML).

> Q3: If the Japanese Ruby community participates in the voting, are there
> enough votes?

That could be a tremendous help.

If I understand correctly, Matz will be setting up a Japanese-English
machine translation system between  the English and Japanese mail lists, and
will also be setting up a 2-way gateway between the English ruby-talk ML and
comp.lang.ruby. So technically, all Japanese Ruby ML users would be
prospective (although indirect) users of comp.lang.ruby, and should thus be
regarded as legitimate voters for the comp.lang.ruby issue.

Conrad

> Dat

> >From: "Conrad Schneiker" <schneiker@jump.net>

> >At the end of this week we will need to decide whether I should withdraw
> >the
> >RFD or whether I should send off the paperwork would then lead from the
RFD
> >to the CFV (call for votes), sometime later this month.
> >
> >We need around 120 yes votes from prospective users of comp.lang.ruby to
> >succeed, and just to be on the safe side, we should probably aim for 200.
> >
> >If we don't get enough yes votes, we have to wait another 6 months to
> >resubmit the RFD. However if we withdraw the RFD instead, we could
resubmit
> >it some 3 months from now if we wanted to. In either of these cases,
> >subsequent usage of comp.lang.misc would be a major factor in subsequent
> >news.groups discussions.
> >
> >Recommendations?
> >
> >Conrad
> >
> >
> >
>
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