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Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 18:17:04 -0400
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Subject: Re: [lojban] Balningau: The Great Update
From: Craig Daniel <craigbdaniel@gmail.com>
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On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 6:05 PM, Craig Daniel <craigbdaniel@gmail.com> wrote:
> Do you know how many years passed from when xorlo was proposed in a
> usably-close-to-final form and when it was granted official status by
> the body you are assuming can't act fast enough?
>
> The answer is about half of one. The BPFK took a vote pretty much
> immediately in which we (I say we because I was on it at the time)
> unanimously said this was a thing we wanted approved and made
> official, so Robin moved to do so. Objections were made that the
> then-current version of the BPFK procedures didn't actually allow for
> that to happen with any piece before all pieces were done (which is
> because they were written at a time when it was thought the whole
> project would take a year or so tops, and we were at the time already
> seeing that it was going to be a long slog), so And said, let's change
> the procedures so we can implement it! And so I wrote up a proposal to
> do precisely that (one that said, in more formal terms, "hey, the
> entire BPFK and a healthy majority of the membership wants this;
> clearly when *that* is the case it is a good idea") and to incorporate
> into those changes the adoption of xorlo, and this proposal passed at
> once.

(To clarify: I should note that xorlo as a thing was about three or
four years old, but the specific, detailed proposal of it that xorxes
put forth was fresh.)

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