Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 15:54:33 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: dg@root.com, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The recent fracas involving danes, war axes and wounded developers Message-ID: <19981228155433.X12346@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199812280520.VAA05681@implode.root.com>; from David Greenman on Sun, Dec 27, 1998 at 09:20:01PM -0800 References: <14383.914821927@zippy.cdrom.com> <199812280520.VAA05681@implode.root.com>
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On Sunday, 27 December 1998 at 21:20:01 -0800, David Greenman wrote: >>> I don't like this; it grants any single core member power of veto, and >>> that's a current problem with our system already. >> >> I could see changing it to a majority vote, but not much less >> stringent than that. Remember, this is about *removing* stuff and the >> historical propensity for our users to scream bloody murder when the >> furby driver, committed by a demented developer at 3am while under the >> influence of 7 bottles of cough syrup, is taken out. We want to make >> it just a little harder than normal to remove existing functionality. > > I might mention that the policy I proposed to Jordan didn't say > "unanimous"...it didn't say "majority", either, but that's actually what > I had in mind. Mike's comment about a quorum is a good one, though, and > I think this needs to be a majority of core members, not a majority of > those who vote on the issue. Does this satisfy the concerns? You might consider somewhere between unanimous (difficult enough to achieve that it might cripple the idea) and a simple majority. How does two thirds sound? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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