On Tue, Dec 30, 2025 at 08:35:06AM +0100, Daniel Sahlberg wrote: > Den tis 30 dec. 2025 kl 06:03 skrev Daniel Shahaf <[email protected]>: > > Anyway, I'd like to ask Nathan if he'd please champion the veto for me. > > That is: I'd like to delegate to Nathan the decision of whether to reäffirm > > or withdraw the veto, and more concretely, of when to declare a particular > > design draft to be the result of on-list consensus design process. Nathan, > > you know the drill: if you say Aye, great and thank you very much; if you > > say Nay, thank you very much too and you needn't even give a reason, and I > > won't ask for a reason offlist either. Cheers :) > > > > May I ask why Nathan should have a special voice in this decision?
• You can view it as me asking whether dev@ agrees that I delegate (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delegation) my discretion to withdraw my own veto. Some details & specifics went without saying. • You can view it as me pursuing a "If Alice and Bob can't agree on what movie to go to, maybe they can agree on which other person they'll ask to decide on a movie for them" strategy. • Or you can view it as me knowing that I'd scheduled my resignation notice to be sent on December 31 at 23:59 and wanting to ensure that this PMC's responsibility to ensure that design discussions happen on dev@ not slip through the cracks. They tell you this in every first aid course: you never go "Somebody call an ambulance!"; you point at ONE person and go "YOU! Dial ${LOCAL_EMERGENCY_NUMBER} and get me an ambulance!", where ${LOCAL_EMERGENCY_NUMBER} is 112 or 911 or 999 or… Take first aid courses, everyone. You wouldn't have time to read a man page. Daniel
