Proposal: stagnation and chaos

To be totally honest, a lot of the values seem like a pretty centrist attempt to crystalize ideas and power — ideas that got us in trouble in the first place. Many of them read like symptom treating declarations that the community is not allowed to be in pain over its mismanagement.

I’m essentially for retiring this, but I have a feeling that it’s just moving around words in a document — and what I would really prefer is to refine this. I want to solve the fundamental problem that made those lines appear in that document in the first place. Stuff like the RFC process or the “flakes are unstable” problems. And all those lines that can feel a bit like saying “we will always do the good thing” and not actually take a stance on how to get to the point of doing good things… I want more “show it”, and much less “tell it”.

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