Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 09:47:31 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, obrien@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Core's function (was: The Project and onward [was: Re: cvs c Message-ID: <20010315094731.C79313@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010314150146.jhb@FreeBSD.org>; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 03:01:46PM -0800 References: <15023.55033.745531.86279@nomad.yogotech.com> <XFMail.010314150146.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wednesday, 14 March 2001 at 15:01:46 -0800, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 14-Mar-01 Nate Williams wrote: >>> I agree with JKH here -- it does not have to be Core to do something. >> >> I never said it had to be a core person doing the 'something'. But, >> core should be able to 'bless' certain people/projects, etc..., similar >> to what was done with SMPng. Even if you didn't like the direction >> Jason was taking the project, he *was* the leader, so that removed alot >> (not all) of the hassles and arguments that people had about direction. > > This is an important point. Part of what made SMPng work was that > in cases where there was a dispute Jason was avaiable to make a > final decision if the group as a whole couldn't come to a consensus. > Granted, we didn't have to do this very often, but I think knowing > that that option was there also forced us to be a little more > willing to compromise, as well. But this is exactly analogous to core's current function. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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