On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 07:28:04PM -0400, David Abrahams wrote:
"Thorsten Ottosen" <nesotto@cs.auc.dk> writes:
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| | If you want to be sure to avoid wasted work you need to participate in | the committee process and build consensus on the reflectors between | meetings... and even then it is possible to fail. Dave H. didn't do | that AFAICT. There's no good reason to think that Andrei's impression | that "people really liked the idea" should be enough to ensure that | the next proposal would be accepted.
Dave, I fully accept the spirit of your post and of Beman's preceeding posts and I think I pretty much get the gist. However, the implication ofn the above is that if I am not a member of the committee then my proposal is at a disadvantage because I can not lobby on the reflectors. Could you or Beman elaborate on the position of a boost member who is not a member of the comittee and the process that they can follow for making a proposal to the committee without being a member. Are we at a disadvantage? /ikh