I hesitate to suggest this, because I think it may be a bad idea (which is why I sat on it all week), but: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote on Tue, 5 Aug 2014 at 08:10:16 -0700 in <53E0F3D8.6080008@cs.ucla.edu>:
Eliot Lear wrote:
What I like about Paul's approach is that he can make changes in perhaps small batches so that people can review them in bite-sized pieces.
Yes, and the recent contretemps started mainly because of a batch that was too large for some in the audience. The latest proposal is a small fraction of the original proposal. I would like to continue to remove data lacking a reliable source -- a process that's been going on for some time -- but I guess it'll be one step at a time.
Perhaps this work should continue in bite-size portions on a branch until it is finally done, and only then should that branch be merged to the trunk and released. --jhawk@mit.edu John Hawkinson