Re: How to proceed

[Janek Warchoł]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 2:44 AM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> [...]
> A coherent set of choices governed by a particular patterning may be
> called "design".  Letting choices be made individually by a democratic
> process will favor varying concepts of simplicity on a detail level
> while breaking the ability for creating a design according to a
> pervasive patterning of the problem space.
>
> What I am getting at is that if we want to have the basic functionality
> usable for beginners and musicians who don't know programming, it won't
> do to let beginners and musicians who don't know programming make the
> design choices, even though their input and feedback will be helpful for
> making checking that the design actually meets its objectives.
> [...]

It seems that you're tired by our our style of discussing which
results in endless email threads :(  I'm sorry, and i'll try to be
more brief.
I also think that we don't (and shouldn't) aim for "random" democracy
- rather meritocracy and informed democracy.

Janek