From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 4 17:48:53 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A09337B401 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 17:48:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA2B043F3F for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 17:48:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 64AFF536F; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 02:48:49 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Andrew Boothman Cc: Mark Murray , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dillon@'s commit bit: I object From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 02:48:48 +0100 In-Reply-To: <3E406467.8020500@cream.org> (Andrew Boothman's message of "Wed, 05 Feb 2003 01:09:59 +0000") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090014 (Oort Gnus v0.14) Emacs/21.2 (i386--freebsd) References: <200302041944.h14JiSaX076743@grimreaper.grondar.org> <3E406467.8020500@cream.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Andrew Boothman writes: > When something happens that people perceive to have effected them > negatively, and they are offered no explanation, the natural reaction > is to question the legitamacy of the leadership. People need > information in order for them to rationalise what is happening. Has it occurred to you that there might be no way to offer a fully satisfactory public answer to your question without causing Matt significant prejudice, and that core might believe very strongly that they are doing the *right* thing by not discussing this in public? DES (not a core team member) -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message