From owner-cvs-all Sun Jan 10 12:19:35 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA09011 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 12:19:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles240.castles.com [208.214.165.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA09006 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 12:19:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA08013; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 12:15:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199901102015.MAA08013@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Bill Fumerola cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , sthaug@nethelp.no, darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysctl descriptions In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 10 Jan 1999 13:12:10 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 12:15:38 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > 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