Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to")

[John Meinel]

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Actually, I believe Tom is working hard with a couple other maintainers
to distribute the project lead. There have been some posts about a
voting among trusted lieutenants for merging patches into tla--mainline.

So even though he does get to decide what is in _his_ tree, he is
choosing to give people access to what goes into the main tla tree.

It was back when James Blackwell was arguing with Tom about who was
controlling mainline. The whole thread got pretty involved, and there
was some bickering, but we at least got to see a little sneak peak of
what's being planned for future progression of arch.

See here for the specific posts:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-arch-users/2004-07/msg00210.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-arch-users/2004-07/msg00212.html

You can follow the thread if you want to see a little arch drama. :)
John
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Samium Gromoff wrote:

|>Heh. Tom isn't omnipotent. Arch development has grown to the size that
|>Tom can no longer arbitrarily enforce decisions he's made. These days,
|>he has to work the same way that everyone else does -- by building
|>consensus.
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| Hey -- i`m pretty sure _he_ decides what goes to _his_ tree, right?
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| I guess the situation is the same as with Linux -- i.e. as long as you
| trust Tom as a project lead -- he decides what goes into the mainline.
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| regards, Samium Gromoff
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