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Date:      Thu, 15 Mar 2001 21:52:21 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, obrien@FreeBSD.org, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Subject:   Re: Core's function (was: The Project and onward [was: Re: cvs c 
Message-ID:  <1419.984689541@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 15 Mar 2001 12:32:17 PST." <XFMail.010315123217.jhb@FreeBSD.org> 

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In message <XFMail.010315123217.jhb@FreeBSD.org>, John Baldwin writes:

>> Uhm, let me just clear a misconception here:  It wasn't core as
>> much as "the usual gang" who appointed John, but it was *given the
>> appearance* of a core decision.
>
>s/John/Jason/
>
>I can but the appearance bit as I was a bit hazy on that in my memory.
>
>> Rather than charting this up to a "core did it right", lets just
>> put it under "somebody did the right thing for core".
>
>Ok.  Do you agree that core has the ability to do this type of thing in the
>future and that if core does it committers at large will accept it?

I agree that core as a concept has that ability, but not that core
as a body shows a remarkable resistance to anything which can be
considered "action" by any meaning of that word and therefore is
unlikely to do so.

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