[Foundation-l] Reflections on the recent debates

Alec Conroy alecmconroy at gmail.com
Sun May 9 00:52:09 UTC 2010


On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Larry Pieniazek
<lar at miltontrainworks.com> wrote:
>
> The problem is that the community isn't "in charge" of anything. Time and
> again we've seen that without precipitious action, the consensus process
> stalls out.


I've seen Jimbo make this argument as well.   Say, in essence, "The
community couldn't reach a consensus, so I imposed mine own will in an
effect to spur the community to consensus. "

Well, it worked-- as a result of his acctions, there is an incredibly
strong consensus that Jimbo can no longer be trusted with the tools.




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