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Date:      Tue, 4 Feb 2003 20:22:32 -0500
From:      Larry Sica <lomion@mac.com>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Magnus_B=E4ckstr=F6m?= <b@etek.chalmers.se>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dillon@'s commit bit: I object
Message-ID:  <4D146278-38A8-11D7-9713-000393A335A2@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0302050028080.82664-100000@scrooge.etek.chalmers.se>

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On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 06:28 PM, Magnus Bäckström wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Brett Glass wrote:
>> At 12:02 PM 2/4/2003, Larry Sica wrote:
>>> I do not have the expertise to do any hard core programming, does 
>>> that
>>> mean i therefore should have no say?  What if i write a number of
>>> articles, or am really helpful?  Or maintain hundreds of freebsd
>>> systems?  Does my investment seem less just because I am not a
>>> committer?
>>
>> Exactly. Perhaps a better form of governance would include another
>> (more open and democratic) stratum at the top, which in turn managed
>> teams that did the coding, docs, advocacy, PR, system administration,
>> etc.?
>
> Sketch a structure you believe would work in practice.
>

That is exactly what i am trying to think about now.  I don't believe 
in talking the talk w/o walking the walk.  I hope to come up with at 
least an idea that will be listened to, and at the least maybe generate 
some positive discussion.  The issue here, for me, is not so much the 
loss of Matt, but the way it was handled.


--Larry


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