From owner-cvs-all Sun Dec 27 21:25:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA23239 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 21:25:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA23233 for ; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 21:25:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA27103; Mon, 28 Dec 1998 15:54:31 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id PAA30375; Mon, 28 Dec 1998 15:54:33 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981228155433.X12346@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 15:54:33 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: dg@root.com, "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Mike Smith , Warner Losh , committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The recent fracas involving danes, war axes and wounded developers References: <14383.914821927@zippy.cdrom.com> <199812280520.VAA05681@implode.root.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199812280520.VAA05681@implode.root.com>; from David Greenman on Sun, Dec 27, 1998 at 09:20:01PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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 -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message