From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 3 16:40:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA18724 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 16:40:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA18719 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 16:40:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr09.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA06490; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 16:39:18 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd006407; Thu Sep 3 16:39:08 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA05561; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 16:38:50 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199809032338.QAA05561@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: An Open Letter To The FreeBSD Core Team To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 23:38:50 +0000 (GMT) Cc: bsdhh@bsdhh.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199809031540.IAA02021@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty" at Sep 3, 98 08:40:55 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Perhaps , a mediation panel or court consisting of a small odd number > of members can help address some of your concerns. > The primary requirement to be a panel member is mentally balance , > good listening skills and technically competent. Any voting body in a small organization should *never* consist of an odd number of members. In the event of a tie, the result should be treated as a vote for the status quo. Anything else quickly oscillates out of control, since it's overdriven by political in-fighting. I'm not speaking for or against the idea, at this time; just that an implementation with an odd number of voters models very quickly into factionalism. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message