Re: Request

[Rory Winston <rw...@eircom.net>]

I think the idea of breaking up the policy issues is a good one. FWIW, 
I'm hugely appreciative of the work that guys like Geir M., Sam, Roy 
etc. have done in the past. I am however,  generally lukewarm towards 
these proposals as a whole.

-Rory

William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
> Sam Ruby wrote:
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>> Request:
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>> If you got this far, thanks for listening.  I will only ask one thing:
>> given the length of time that this proposal has been out there, if you
>> wish to debate the terms of this proposal, do it on a new thread.
>> Vote -1 if you feel you must on this proposal with a pointer to that
>> thread if you like, but lets keep this thread to the vote itself.
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> Request;
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> it's really hard to follow a new draft v.s. old draft.  If you could branch
> /jcp/index.xml, and commit one policy change/issue per change, it would be
> possible to decide how far to take the policy changes.  We could adopt some
> rev's, vote down certain rev's, and adopt the policy more quickly once each
> of the issues has been considered, and merge back.
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> >From these long threads, it's clear some of the changes are resoundingly
> agreed to, some of these are cautiously feasible with appropriate grandfather
> exceptions, and some seem to be less-than-our-consensus on this forum.
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