From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 5 11:26:17 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9B2F37B401; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 11:26:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 690D043E4A; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 11:26:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from interjet.elischer.org (12-232-168-4.client.attbi.com[12.232.168.4]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53) with ESMTP id <20030205192614053003loare>; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 19:26:15 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA97681; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 11:26:13 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 11:26:12 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Gordon Tetlow Cc: Wilko Bulte , Eugene Grosbein , chat@FreeBSD.ORG, developers@FreeBSD.ORG, core@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dillon@'s commit bit: I object In-Reply-To: <20030205190345.GD42936@roark.gnf.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Gordon Tetlow wrote: > On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:01:11AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > I suggest we hold a plebecite on this, where people be willing to put > > their names in public to decide the issue. > > I think personally that core has acted against the wishes of the > > majority of committers, but that there is a large group who will go > > along with what core says, because they believe in the "rules". > > > > Nothing I've seen from Matt would be what I consider particularly bad. > > No death threats or such.. Being called a moron is par for the course in > > this field and anyone who can't take that, or being accused of whining > > should go do something else. > > core has made their decision. When they were elected, you entrusted them > to make hard decisions like this. This is not about a popularity contest. > Can we please drop this and get on with life? Dropping this is akin to dropping FreeBSD as a lost cause. > > -gordon > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message