Re: MAINTAINERS file

[Nick Roberts]

 > > 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.

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Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob