Shawn Walker writes: > > Again, you fail to define consensus. If you believe it to be the > > majority opinion, how are you determining that? Counting emails? If > > so, I respectfully suggest you have erred gravely. If you want to > > claim consensus; call a vote. To do otherwise is misrepresenting this > > community and makes me regret voting for the OGB members. > > To which I would also add that if your definition of consensus is > limited to those posting emails, it is horribly flawed to begin with. > You and I both know there are significantly more people with voting > rights than post on these lists.
Perhaps I'm making distinctions that you're not, because I see "vote" (formal adoption of a measure) as quite distinct from merely having "consensus" on some matter. I hate to resort to this sort of measure, but since you're being argumentative, my dictionary defines it this way: con.sen.sus \k*n-'sen(t)-s*s\ n [L, fr. consensus, pp. of consentire] 1: group solidarity in sentiment and belief 2a: general agreement : UNANIMITY 2b: collective opinion Note the lack of the implication that "consensus" must be based on any sort of a vote. For the record, the OGB members are: James Carlson Alan Coopersmith Casper Dik Glynn Foster Stephen Lau Rich Teer Keith Wesolowski Of those, only Glynn Foster has decided to abstain from the pending matter. We've heard from most of the others: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/2007-November/002991.html http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/2007-November/003012.html http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/2007-November/002889.html http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/2007-November/002968.html http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/2007-November/002918.html The only one I can't find a definitive reference for is Alan, but it's only because I've gotten bored and the above clearly represents "general agreement" to any rational definition of the phrase. And, by the way, if you feel the need to either vote for someone else next time around or -- better yet -- draft an article of recall against me, then you have my +1 on that. I have no need of the crap and needless invective being hurled here, and I have plenty of real work that I could be doing instead. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
