Hi,

On Sat, 17 Aug 2002 14:45, Paul Hammant wrote:
> >http://jakarta.apache.org/site/decisions.html
> >
> >It must be realized that CVS access is a privlidge and if you abuse it it
> > will be revoked. I hope the people who are doing this rectify the
> > situation before we are forced to revoke access.
>
> As someone who's done a few unilateral things in the last few weeks, I
> feel a bit nervous.  I thought that, say, upgrading xerces to 2.0.2 in
> Phoenix would be a good thing.  I've also done much to many Excalibur
> xdocs and build files facilitating the site being pushed out.  It might
> be nice to elaborate a little Peter as there surely is a cut off point
> on changes.. ?

No thats all fine. The main point is that the decision process is often 
ignored. Things that have been vetoed get committed and never reverted.  
Unless people object to your changes I say go for it! Especially when they 
end up in better state than when you started. This is essentially Lazy 
consensus.

However when people object you need to address their concerns and get them to 
agree, if that is not possible you need to revert the changes. One thing that 
must be mentioned though is that people can not object to things that they 
are not a developer/user for.

-- 
Cheers,

Peter Donald
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because
God is not capricious or arbitrary.  No such faith comforts the software
engineer.
- Fred Brooks, Jr.


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