On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 06:01:16PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> "General consensus" is best, but that can't be guaranteed. "Consensus of
> the ruling council" is more attainable, but there's that whole "ruling
> council" thing to contend with. "What Larry says" is best, but what happens
> if he doesn't, or gets hit by a bus at some point?
I'd be happy with "what the project manager says". We trust the project
manager to be able to gauge "general consensus" and decide what's best for
Perl. It gives us a "what Larry says" style polity without the sacred cow.
And if the project manager goes mad (in the case of Nat, more mad :) and we
have to shoot him, then Larry should do that. And if Larry gets bussed, look
around at other open source projects and see what happens when the
maintainer's unmaintainable - people either stick it out, or fork.
--
Grr... don't get me started on Wagner. The man couldn't resolve a
dominant seventh to a tonic with two musical dictionaries open to the
word "resolution", and a copy of anything by Muddy Waters.
- Eric the Read, in the monastery.
