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 21:58:26 +0300 Message-ID: <83h9m73hkd.fsf@gnu.org> References: <5610207A.2000300@harpegolden.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1443898741 13924 80.91.229.3 (3 Oct 2015 18:59:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2015 18:59:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David De La Harpe Golden Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 03 20:58:51 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 1ZiS13-0006WV-If for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 20:58:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39671 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiS12-0002hq-RG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 14:58:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53947) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiS10-0002hj-1m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 14:58:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiS0v-0001Pp-3m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 14:58:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:55935) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiS0u-0001PF-S1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 14:58:33 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NVN00E00QV1VS00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 21:58:31 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NVN00E3RRDJUR50@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 21:58:31 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <5610207A.2000300@harpegolden.net> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 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:190806 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2015 19:37:46 +0100 > From: David De La Harpe Golden > > Regardin two vs three, note a Triumvirate can be better in that > particular respect. If each person has one "vote", and they're deciding > on a binary issue, then two people can deadlock, three can't. Why do you assume that majority voting is the only possible way of making decisions?