Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 23:43:00 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.pp.ru>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, developers@FreeBSD.ORG, core@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dillon@'s commit bit: I object Message-ID: <a05200f05ba6743408b4f@[146.106.12.76]> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0302051056020.97117-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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At 11:01 AM -0800 2003/02/05, 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".
This is a classic vocal minority/silent majority problem.
Unless you explicitly enumerate all possible FreeBSD committers
and contributors and ask each and every one of them which way they
vote on the subject and you force them to vote one way or the other,
and then you expose all the voting information (potentially obscuring
the information that ties a particular arbitrary code to a particular
person), then you'll never be able to get a final answer to this
question.
There are too many people who don't know anything about the
situation (and therefore can't justify voting one way or the other),
or don't care, or care but don't choose to complain publicly, etc....
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
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