From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New maintainer Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2015 22:20:43 +0300 Message-ID: <83eghb3gj8.fsf@gnu.org> References: <5610207A.2000300@harpegolden.net> <83h9m73hkd.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1443900070 32296 80.91.229.3 (3 Oct 2015 19:21:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2015 19:21:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Wiegley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 03 21:21:03 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiSMf-0003Sr-Qj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 21:21:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39750 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiSMa-0001DP-4g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 15:20:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60537) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiSMX-0001DH-6h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 15:20:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiSMU-00039v-3h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 15:20:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout25.012.net.il ([80.179.55.181]:46212) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiSMT-00039h-Rn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 15:20:50 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout25.012.net.il by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NVN00200RTH0Y00@mtaout25.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 22:18:06 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NVN004O5SA61600@mtaout25.012.net.il>; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 22:18:06 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:190812 Archived-At: > From: "John Wiegley" > Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2015 12:08:21 -0700 > > >>>>> Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > Why do you assume that majority voting is the only possible way of making > > decisions? > > It's the only way to break a tie if there is vehement difference of > opinion. No, it isn't. It's just one way. One obvious alternative is to look for a compromise that everyone can live with. And there are others.