>> For me, IT -- with its no guarantee of competitiveness and a history of NOT trying to ensure that all cars are 100% equally balanced (which is impossible anyway, and is truly what "leads to prod") -- needs a simple, repeatable process with some very limited "human" checks on it. Basically, what we have now. It works.

I'm quoting that for posterity, emphasis mine. We'll come back to this in January 2010 and see what that looks like.

Between now and then, do you think I should let things go the direction I smell them going, throw myself bodily in front of any listing not following the default assumptions, or...??

Or I'm just paranoid and should quit worrying.

K