From owner-cvs-all Thu Mar 15 12:52:29 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EED537B719; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 12:52:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f2FKqL101421; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 21:52:21 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: John Baldwin Cc: Nate Williams , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, obrien@FreeBSD.org, Greg Lehey Subject: Re: Core's function (was: The Project and onward [was: Re: cvs c In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 15 Mar 2001 12:32:17 PST." Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 21:52:21 +0100 Message-ID: <1419.984689541@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , 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. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message