Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 12:15:38 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Bill Fumerola <billf@jade.chc-chimes.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, sthaug@nethelp.no, darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysctl descriptions Message-ID: <199901102015.MAA08013@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 10 Jan 1999 13:12:10 EST." <Pine.BSF.3.96.990110130754.21293A-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com>
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> On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > 2. Let the committers vote these sorts of technical decisions since we > > can both get a much better "turnout" from committers on an issue > > (when we're lucky to get even half of core to vote sometimes) and > > we also involve most those who generally end up doing most of the > > work. Fair is fair, right? > > Some sort of automatic means of voting would be nice. Committers all have > the means to be authenticated and vote (freefall), and certainly more > positions are going to be reprsented, such as people working on small > kernels and such, alpha people, ports, etc.. > > I'd hate for us to have 50 committees and respective chairpeople, and a > committer vote would be nice. Perhaps an existing system (a cvs file that > people modify?) could be used to track these votes. > > All just ideas flowing through my mind, comments please.. A formal voting scheme would have (MHO) too much overhead, and would likely just slow us down. I think we all like the "rough consensus and working code" philosohpy, and I feel strongly that it's a critical part of what makes working for this project so worthwhile. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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