Davanum Srinivas wrote:

IMHO, You can start with a gentle push and if you don't get "enough
attention" then do a -1.
IMHO, No one can expect a total control of changes to a class that was
just checked in a few hours ago. That's preposterous. Unless *ALL*
details were discussed prior on the mailing list and the checkin was
just a formality.
IMHO, the situation was not serious enough to warrant a -1.

In that case, I agree fully. In any case, Deepal apologized for it and I thought we're past that story but I guess not!

Yes, the process is if there is a -1 then the code needs to be
reverted to the previous version as soon as possible, unless there is
build break in our test harness.

There were several -1s against a bunch of changes involved with folks removing existing functionality because "they didn't see it being used". Sorry but that's -1 material .. if someone just removes some features because they can't see it being used then that's a problem and the onus is on that person to *ask*. If they can't be bothered to ask then -1 is a way of telling "this is not accepted behavior" too.

Sorry, IMHO, spate of -1's that i see means a "My way or the Highway"
approach is taking root and i personally don't like it.

This is too strong Dims- everyone needs to realize that commits cannot remove existing functionality once we've published it in a release. Example: Glen just removed another feature :) .. see Thilina's mail a bit ago. Once we release some API we CANNOT remove it in the next version .. best we can do is deprecate. We can remove in a future release!

Sanjiva.
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Sanjiva Weerawarana, Ph.D.
Founder & Director; Lanka Software Foundation; http://www.opensource.lk/
Founder, Chairman & CEO; WSO2, Inc.; http://www.wso2.com/
Director; Open Source Initiative; http://www.opensource.org/
Member; Apache Software Foundation; http://www.apache.org/
Visiting Lecturer; University of Moratuwa; http://www.cse.mrt.ac.lk/

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