votes? [HISTORY HELP?]

[Greg Stein <gs...@gmail.com>]

Hey all,

There have been a few occasions when I've noted to others how our community
has *avoided* voting. For FIFTEEN years.

We took a vote on whitespace issues because consensus wasn't clear. That
ended up with "no space before paren".

But it seems we took a vote on something else. But I don't recall. ... ???

What other community votes have we performed?

I'm talking formal votes. Not the drive-by stuff for release branches, or
privates votes for committers. Flat-out votes where we have asked the whole
community to VOTE.

It has been rare. Thankfully. Anybody know what else we voted on?

Thx,
-g

Re: votes? [HISTORY HELP?]

[Daniel Shahaf <d....@daniel.shahaf.name>]

Greg Stein wrote on Fri, Jan 01, 2016 at 07:43:32 -0600:
> It has been rare. Thankfully. Anybody know what else we voted on?

Naming the cmdline client svn(1) or sub(1)?  I didn't witness it
personally, but that was the mythology when I was inducted ;-)

http://mid.gmane.org/85d5ibqew7.fsf@newton.ch.collab.net

RE: votes? [HISTORY HELP?]

[Bert Huijben <be...@qqmail.nl>]

I don’t remember any other votes for the years I was active in the project. 

The whitespace vote took place well before that period, but you can’t miss this specific case when you go through the Subversion history. Almost every file was touched after that occasion, while we still have places that aren’t completely updated.

Perhaps something around the Subversion Corporation if ever? (Don’t think so…)

Bert


From: Greg Stein
Sent: vrijdag 1 januari 2016 14:43
To: dev@subversion.apache.org
Subject: votes? [HISTORY HELP?]

Hey all,

There have been a few occasions when I've noted to others how our community has *avoided* voting. For FIFTEEN years.

We took a vote on whitespace issues because consensus wasn't clear. That ended up with "no space before paren".

But it seems we took a vote on something else. But I don't recall. ... ???

What other community votes have we performed?

I'm talking formal votes. Not the drive-by stuff for release branches, or privates votes for committers. Flat-out votes where we have asked the whole community to VOTE.

It has been rare. Thankfully. Anybody know what else we voted on?

Thx,
-g