From owner-cvs-all Wed Mar 14 15:42:30 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43B9137B719; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 15:42:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2ENg0G85883; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 15:42:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010315094731.C79313@wantadilla.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 15:41:40 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Greg Lehey Subject: Re: Core's function (was: The Project and onward [was: Re: cvs c Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Nate Williams Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 14-Mar-01 Greg Lehey wrote: > 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. Err, exactly. -core delegated some of its authority so that when a conflict came up, the SMPng group didn't have to go harrass all of core to try and get it resolved. Committers have granted this authority to core as it were, it's now cores to delegate as it sees fit if it wishes to do so. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message