From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
To: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: MAINTAINERS file
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 19:28:31 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18376.63375.830019.246743@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87skzb5r3l.fsf@red-bean.com>
> > Chaos is never favourable, although anarchy may sometimes be. Someone has
> > to always arbitrate over any disagreement.
>
> This is not true. For example, in the Subversion project there is no
> arbitrator. We try for consensus, and if there is unresolveable
> disagreement, the global committers vote.
>
> A vote has happened only twice in the history of the project:
That sounds like arbitration to me, but it certainly appears that the Subversion
project is fortunate in that disagreement doesn't often occur.
In any case, there doesn't appear to be much support for a written constiution
(AKA MAINTAINERS file).
So be it.
--
Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-01 6:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 148+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-28 23:51 MAINTAINERS file Nick Roberts
2008-02-29 6:57 ` Karl Fogel
2008-02-29 7:05 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-29 9:57 ` Andreas Röhler
2008-02-29 10:30 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-02-29 11:25 ` Bastien
2008-02-29 11:32 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-02-29 11:50 ` Bastien Guerry
2008-02-29 11:56 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-02-29 12:05 ` Bastien
2008-02-29 12:11 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-02-29 11:53 ` Miles Bader
2008-03-01 1:00 ` Xavier Maillard
2008-02-29 8:05 ` Glenn Morris
2008-02-29 11:21 ` Nick Roberts
2008-02-29 22:34 ` Karl Fogel
2008-02-29 23:28 ` Karl Fogel
2008-02-29 23:31 ` Chong Yidong
2008-03-01 6:28 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
2008-03-01 9:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-03-01 15:52 ` Karl Fogel
2008-03-01 19:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-03-01 23:09 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-02 5:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-02 21:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-03-02 21:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-03 3:20 ` Miles Bader
2008-03-03 4:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-03 12:55 ` Romain Francoise
2008-03-03 13:44 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-03-03 15:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-03 15:23 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-03-03 16:51 ` Karl Fogel
2008-03-03 17:01 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-03-03 17:32 ` Jason Rumney
2008-03-03 18:16 ` Leo
2008-03-03 21:58 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-03-03 22:07 ` Jason Rumney
2008-03-03 22:10 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-03-03 22:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-03 22:35 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-03-03 22:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-03 22:57 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-03-03 17:13 ` paul r
2008-03-04 0:56 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-04 2:09 ` Miles Bader
2008-03-04 17:37 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-04 18:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-04 22:18 ` Glenn Morris
2008-03-05 21:33 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-05 22:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-05 22:33 ` Miles Bader
2008-03-06 17:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-06 17:21 ` Miles Bader
2008-03-06 18:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-06 20:14 ` Thomas Lord
2008-03-06 21:21 ` Thomas Lord
2008-03-07 0:10 ` Miles Bader
2008-03-07 4:10 ` Thomas Lord
2008-03-07 3:09 ` Miles Bader
2008-03-06 2:25 ` Thomas Lord
2008-03-07 3:38 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-05 0:17 ` Jason Earl
2008-03-05 2:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-05 3:11 ` Miles Bader
2008-03-05 8:02 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-03-05 23:07 ` Jason Earl
2008-03-06 8:33 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-03-06 19:09 ` Jason Earl
2008-03-06 19:19 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-03-04 12:56 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-03-04 13:56 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-03-04 18:41 ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
2008-03-04 20:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-03-04 20:28 ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
2008-03-04 22:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-05 15:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-03-05 16:25 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-03-07 3:37 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-07 8:50 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-03-07 9:20 ` David Kastrup
2008-03-07 10:27 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-03-07 18:47 ` Thomas Lord
2008-03-08 0:35 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-03-08 2:27 ` Thomas Lord
2008-03-08 0:59 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-03-08 3:06 ` Thomas Lord
2008-03-08 1:43 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-03-09 2:17 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-09 12:43 ` Davi Leal
2008-03-09 20:53 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-07 16:39 ` Robert J. Chassell
2008-03-07 16:47 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-03-09 2:17 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-09 23:34 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-03-10 8:15 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-03-10 9:11 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-03-10 9:23 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-03-10 11:50 ` Harsha
2008-03-10 12:05 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-03-11 13:41 ` Walter Franzini
2008-03-10 15:19 ` Gilaras Drakeson
2008-03-11 9:24 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-10 17:16 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-07 9:16 ` David Kastrup
2008-03-09 2:18 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-18 19:07 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-03-05 9:45 ` David Kastrup
2008-03-07 3:37 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-05 21:34 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-03 17:22 ` Bastien
2008-03-03 15:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-03 16:29 ` merging Emacs.app (was Re: MAINTAINERS file) Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-03 21:38 ` merging Emacs.app Stefan Monnier
2008-03-05 5:04 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-05 12:38 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2008-03-05 16:05 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-06 0:58 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2008-03-06 4:03 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-07 3:16 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2008-03-07 3:20 ` Miles Bader
2008-03-08 3:43 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2008-03-08 3:46 ` Miles Bader
2008-03-08 5:13 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2008-03-08 16:58 ` David Reitter
2008-03-08 17:14 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-08 17:46 ` David Reitter
2008-03-08 18:34 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-08 18:59 ` David Reitter
2008-03-08 22:01 ` The Aquamacs fork (was Re: merging Emacs.app) Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-08 18:40 ` merging Emacs.app David Kastrup
2008-03-09 10:05 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2008-03-09 13:14 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2008-03-09 13:27 ` David Kastrup
2008-03-09 14:30 ` David Reitter
2008-03-10 0:19 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2008-03-10 10:06 ` Adrian Robert
2008-03-10 10:48 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2008-03-10 14:09 ` Adrian Robert
2008-03-10 15:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-03 18:26 ` MAINTAINERS file Richard Stallman
2008-03-03 21:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-04 23:03 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-05 12:10 ` Bastien
2008-03-09 1:00 ` Xavier Maillard
2008-03-09 2:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-09 16:40 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-03 2:14 ` Chong Yidong
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