On 5 August 2014 16:10, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
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.
Er no. The argument has mostly been about the principles, not the size of the change. The size prevented both decent review and correct rollback, but both of those are as much about not using a sensible source code management strategy as the data itself. Simply ploughing on with the changes, just in smaller batches, does not actually make the objectors happy, it merely increases the noise and effort we all have to make. The point remains that replacing bogus data with other bogus data is nothing other than dumb from the perspective of many of those who ultimately consume the data. zic is but one consumer these day. Stephen