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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>,
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Subject: Re: The recent fracas involving danes, war axes and wounded developers 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 27 Dec 1998 21:12:07 PST."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 21:20:01 -0800
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>> I don't like this; it grants any single core member power of veto, and 
>> that's a current problem with our system already.
>
>I could see changing it to a majority vote, but not much less
>stringent than that.  Remember, this is about *removing* stuff and the
>historical propensity for our users to scream bloody murder when the
>furby driver, committed by a demented developer at 3am while under the
>influence of 7 bottles of cough syrup, is taken out.  We want to make
>it just a little harder than normal to remove existing functionality.

   I might mention that the policy I proposed to Jordan didn't say
"unanimous"...it didn't say "majority", either, but that's actually what
I had in mind. Mike's comment about a quorum is a good one, though, and
I think this needs to be a majority of core members, not a majority of
those who vote on the issue. Does this satisfy the concerns?

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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