Re: #1416

"Charles Lindsey" <[email protected]>
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In <[email protected]> "Frank Ellermann" <[email protected]> writes:

>Charles Lindsey wrote:

>> Russ's vote for IR is cancelled out by my vote for IC

>My enthusiasm for voting in technical questions is limited.

>Harald noted elsewhere that the idea of humming is to find
>rough consensus or its absence without counting.  Here with
>the very limited participation it is anyway not compelling.

Voting, or rather "counting heads" will give an indication of rough
consensus if there is a substantial majority one way or the other. If it
is evenly balanced, then you are still stuck of course.

But in this caase I think both Russ and I would be willing to accept a
majority view if it was clear we had one.

>But I do think that the Injection-Date in the approved RFC
>represents a *possible* and plausible concept.

Sure, but nobody is suggesting abandoning Injection-Date totally - it is
just a matter of who is supposed to add it and when. As I just explained
to Lisa, even Russ's version of #1416 is better than no version at all.

It's just that I think Injection-Date will catch on more rapidly if we
allow Injecting Agents to add it more-or-less always, in spite of the very
rare risk that an occasional user might see the same article twice.

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