From owner-cvs-all Wed Mar 14 15:17:39 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 535F737B719; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 15:17:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 02E266AC94; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 09:47:32 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 09:47:31 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: John Baldwin Cc: Nate Williams , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, obrien@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Core's function (was: The Project and onward [was: Re: cvs c Message-ID: <20010315094731.C79313@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <15023.55033.745531.86279@nomad.yogotech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 03:01:46PM -0800 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 14 March 2001 at 15:01:46 -0800, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 14-Mar-01 Nate Williams wrote: >>> I agree with JKH here -- it does not have to be Core to do something. >> >> I never said it had to be a core person doing the 'something'. But, >> core should be able to 'bless' certain people/projects, etc..., similar >> to what was done with SMPng. Even if you didn't like the direction >> Jason was taking the project, he *was* the leader, so that removed alot >> (not all) of the hassles and arguments that people had about direction. > > This is an important point. Part of what made SMPng work was that > in cases where there was a dispute Jason was avaiable to make a > final decision if the group as a whole couldn't come to a consensus. > Granted, we didn't have to do this very often, but I think knowing > that that option was there also forced us to be a little more > willing to compromise, as well. But this is exactly analogous to core's current function. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message