The leadership and values in this comment by @aaron_turon is a huge reason why I love #rustlang:https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/revisiting-rusts-modules/5628/136?u=carols10cents …
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While I appreciate the effort at compromise, I think there’s still an issue the community has never fully addressed, which is whether ..
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.. there ought to be some objective, binding mechanism of expressing & weighting dissent in a trade-off, other than argument & right-of-fork
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What would such a mechanism look like? What would its goals be?
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Oh, just the usual matters of governance. Representativeness & proportionality, accountability, etc. Usual mix of quantitative mechanisms?
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I would think the quantitative mechanisms would have to be weighted somehow by experience, etc, which gets us back to "core team decides"
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Surely there are many ways of summing and weighting governance questions, many producing very different outcomes than that.
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Point is at moment governance structure has very sharp line between in & out, where out is strictly advisory, no defined powers.
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I suspect that over time & with increasing scale, that might be worth reconsidering. Many projects grow formal vote or veto mechanisms.
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Yeah I'm imagining "50% of v casually-involved people say no = veto" which doesn't seem great either, but that may not be what you mean
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In practice the core team wouldn't do something that had huge backlash from a majority of users. That's part of what happened here.
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