Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 23:30:01 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The recent fracas involving danes, war axes and wounded developers Message-ID: <199812280630.XAA23503@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199812280505.VAA07578@dingo.cdrom.com> References: <14249.914821086@zippy.cdrom.com> <199812280505.VAA07578@dingo.cdrom.com>
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> > of tie-breaking decisions when such are necessary, is that it be done > > directly by original author/committer of the bits (and not by any > > arbitrary 3rd party) unless.... Do you have any problem with this portion Mike , and only unless, a *unanimous* core team > > vote for its removal is made. Such a vote would be preceded by a 72 > > hour discussion period, during which time committers list would be > > also brought into the discussion in order to express their opinions, > > the final decision still being up to the core team and its vote. > > 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 think the current problem is that we have people who think they have carte-blanche to do anything they feel like. Now, in their defense they often do things that no-one else is willing to do, so it cuts both ways. I believe -core is (and should be) mostly a political forum, not a technical forum. There are too many technical issues that are understood *well* by people outside of -core, and technical issues should be discussed by the folks who are most interested in the technical issues, which in many cases are not -core members. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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