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Date:      Mon, 28 Dec 1998 15:54:33 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        dg@root.com, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, committers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The recent fracas involving danes, war axes and wounded developers
Message-ID:  <19981228155433.X12346@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199812280520.VAA05681@implode.root.com>; from David Greenman on Sun, Dec 27, 1998 at 09:20:01PM -0800
References:  <14383.914821927@zippy.cdrom.com> <199812280520.VAA05681@implode.root.com>

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On Sunday, 27 December 1998 at 21:20:01 -0800, David Greenman wrote:
>>> 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?

You might consider somewhere between unanimous (difficult enough to
achieve that it might cripple the idea) and a simple majority.  How
does two thirds sound?

Greg
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