RE: Future RPG IV enhancements, you have been selected to vote

Martin wrote:
>Thanks for this, and it gives me the opportunity to raise a question
>I've been meaning to.
>
>Why did you guys send the poll invitation out at such a weird time?
>
>I unsubscribed from the RPG and Midrange lists on Friday the 22nd of
>December, as I usually do before going on holiday for more than a day or
>two (even if my inbox could cope with the volume, I don't think _I_
>could).  I came back to work on the 4th of January, and resubsubscribed,
>only to find the RPG list up in arms about how many dollars everyone
>would spend on what features.
>
>I'm sure I couldn't have been alone in missing the all-important
>invitation to vote.  I realise I could have searched the archives for it
>myself, but there are many other things to do, too...
>
>It's not a big deal, but it might be worth avoiding that time of year in
>future?

Well, who knows what will happen next time, or when we'll repeat
this, or even IF we'll repeat this.  (We probably will do it
again, but like I said, who knows!)

I was hoping we could get the poll out earlier, but you know how
things always conspire against you.  On the 22nd, George finally
e-mailed the ballot to the people who voted in the last poll, and
then he sent the ballot to Barbara and me to post on some external
groups, such as this.  But then my Notes server was slow, and I
didn't get the official ballot until noon.  I was anxious myself
to get away for the holidays!

Anyways, although the timing was a bit awkward, we've got plenty
of returned ballots now, and we already have a good idea of what
the priorities should be.  There's been a fair bit of publicity
over this (not just here), and so everyone on-line who cares about
RPG has probably seen the ballot somewhere.

Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com
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