On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 09:08:12PM -0600, Takuya Murata wrote:

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And it's Jimbo who owns servers.

What do you mean? I thought Bomis owns the server. Am I right?

And Jimbo owns Bomis.

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It seems it's usually Brion who commits stuff here, but it's less formal than with Linux kernel.

So, it is a kind of arbitrary.

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Anyway, this was rather uncontroversial change.

I don't remember saying it is controversial. I am sorry for giving wrong impression. I was just wondering about the decision process. I don't mean to object to this change at all. (though I advocate the system should be more democratic)

Generally if change is not controversial, anyone with CVS access can apply it, and if you don't have CVS access you can just send it to such person (usually to Brion). For example most translations get updated without any discussion.

If change is controversial, there is usually lot of discussion, and it usually doesn't get applied unless there is consensus that it should be. There were some exceptions, for example there was no consensus about banning subpages, but usually we try to make everyone either agree or at least not strongly oppose change.

But if you mean "democratic" as in voting, then no, we don't do that.