On 2019-08-13 07:57:29 -0700 (-0700), James E. Blair wrote: [...]
Several folks, including you, have said that they wish the process were out of the TC's hands. The fact is that it already is, but unfortunately people seem to keep wanting to manipulate the list before it goes out for a vote. [...]
You've also convinced me that I should not have requested removal of politically-sensitive choices from the list, since we could have done that as part of the community discussion instead of prior to it. I feel like the goal in narrowing the list of options was to speed up the public review period so we could get on with the vote quickly and have a name sooner, but in retrospect that raised as much or more discussion than leaving them in likely would have done. -- Jeremy Stanley