RE: discussion / voting

"Stacy Olivas" <[email protected]> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 06:07:03 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.os.bsd.advocacy
Message-ID <011f01c2d254$94ea15d0$0502000a@sentinel>
> 
> Okay, folks.  Enough surprises.
> 
> The important stuff needs to be discussed on the mailing 
> list, ~not~ on
> IRC.  That way, 1) it gets logged, and 2) we can all have a 
> say whether
> we're around or not.  I don't care if you guys have lengthy 
> discussions
> on IRC, but it would be really nice if someone would take the 
> initiative
> to at least post some minutes (or the log) if anything important is
> discussed.
> 

Agreed.

> And in order to keep things from getting too hectic around 
> here, we need
> to make sure that everyone submits a vote before we do 
> anything major or
> make big decisions.  Not that I'm complaining for getting my way, but
> the core should all have gotten a vote as to which DB to use. 
>  I have no
> idea if that happened or not, but for the record, I would have been
> perfectly happy using Berkeley DB rather than PostgreSQL.
> 
> Yeah, voting has a tendency to slow things down.  So what?  We don't
> have a final deadline on this project.  So, we should take the time to
> do this ~right~ instead of quickly.  There's been talk of 
> wanting to set
> deadlines.  Fine.  Just make them realistic and take into account that
> some of us work and will only be able to contribute once in a while.
> 

Hmmm....  

(Sorry, I'm just now able to read my e-mail... Had a few things
come up with my laptop. :)

-Stacy