Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 21:36:24 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, 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: <199812280536.VAA05896@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 28 Dec 1998 15:54:33 %2B1030." <19981228155433.X12346@freebie.lemis.com>
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>> 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? I thought about that, but it is difficult to get a quorum large enough to satisfy that requirement. Most of the time only 2/3rds or less of the core team members cast a vote. I won't offer any excuses as to why this is the case. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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