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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

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On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Mathieu L. wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 12:00:16AM -0800, Andrew wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > Of course, people will always have different ideas on stuff. Is the
> > system-update feature a sorcery sub-command? or an option to the
> > sorcery tool?
> >
> > Following tradition we should now start a long verbose thread on the topic
> > without any real progress, then have it abruptly end without resolution.
> >
> > :-)
>
> I'm glad you're joking on that, bringing up what seems to be quite an
> important problem to me; because as you said it happened already several
> times and I think it really slows down smgl's evolving.
> So, what I propose here is that we think about a formal way of solving
> this kind of issue. I mean for example why don't we just call an
> official vote when there is a clear divergence of opinions between 2
> (or more) devs?
> For this precise case, since someone clearly suggested that he'd prefer
> the usual long options syntax instead of the subcommand syntax, it would
> be up to him (if you, as the responsible for such an implementation
> still don't agree with him) to call for an offcial vote.
> Then all devs
> would vote according to some rules (which sandalle would be pleased to
> come up with ;) ) and then you would have to comply with the result of
> that vote. Of course, this is only an example on how things could be
> done, but at least I think it would somehow end up in a productive
> result.
>
> What do you all think about that? (should we vote about it? ;) )

The voting is a horrible idea, IMO. ;) If we are to vote on every
issue that two or more developers disagree on, then we shouldn't even
have the Team Leads. We vote on the Team Leads so they can make these
decisions after weighing the pros and cons and listening to the
developer (and, when pertinent, user ;)) feedback.

- -sandalle

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Eric Sandall                     |  Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
eric AT sandall.us                  |  http://www.sourcemage.org/
http://eric.sandall.us/          |  SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU
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