Charles Lindsey wrote:
Agreed. Clearly Russ's vote for IR is cancelled out by my vote for IC, so it is the rest of the WG that gets to make the choice. But we need to get that choice made so that we can move on.
I'm with Russ, if that matters to the chair. I have no idea why every vote counts equally here, for two reasons.1. Russ has experience writing and maintaining news server software for a production environment. I do too. Others here do too.
2. Technical merit matters. I agree completely with Russ's statements about how rapidly software will get changed in production. There is lots of evidence for that in the last decade. I believe that the choices in what you call "IR" are appropriate for that.