Here’s my understanding @tromer:
- It’s been four months since proposals have been submitted and discussed on the forum and GitHub.
- Including those withdrawn, there have been 25 submitted proposals.
- Of the fifteen active proposals, by my naive count there have been over 600 direct forum comments in aggregate, not counting the 300+ comment megathread or side discussions. I don’t know how much has been discussed outside the forum/didn’t count GitHub or other mediums.
- There has been ample opportunity for people to select variants, build their own proposals, or discuss the details and merits of particular approaches…
- …and at least by the Foundation’s approach to sentiment gathering, there’s still a week left to consolidate and/or discuss new forks or variants.
I hope that proposers will spend the week specifying the pieces that are still ambiguous, or withdrawing such proposals if not properly specified. Look if you have specific improvements to a particular proposal, by all means, fork it and submit it as a PR and/or new forum topic to be included in the sentiment collection by November 14. While I’d personally like to see a consolidation of proposals before next Friday, there’s no reason it can’t go the other way to provide more choices for miners, forum members, and community advisory panel members.
But to be blunt: trying to gauge every possible tweak or variant on proposals is an impossible task, and honestly, there’s been ample opportunity to bring these issues up and suggest alternatives months ago. And there’s still a week left to do more.
Finally: if a proposal is truly not well-specified or impossible to implement, I should hope that the forum members and community advisory panel members take that it into account when they’re polled and/or provide feedback on the forum/GitHub for specific proposals. If not then we have bigger problems.