On ECMA International

2013-05-17 Thread Andrea Giammarchi
I've tried to find something like ECMA constitution or how things work here page in what I think is the official ECMA website: http://www.ecma-international.org/ I could not find what I am looking for, which is an answer to this question: Does TC39 make decisions based on majority or unanimity?

Re: On ECMA International

2013-05-17 Thread Brendan Eich
Andrea Giammarchi wrote: I've tried to find something like ECMA constitution or how things work here page in what I think is the official ECMA website: http://www.ecma-international.org/ I could not find what I am looking for, which is an answer to this question: Does TC39 make decisions

Re: On ECMA International

2013-05-17 Thread Andrea Giammarchi
Thanks for the answer Brendan. Without names, since apparently nothing final has been decided yet, it happened recently that everyone agreed here but one single TC39 member didn't manage to participate that thread so, while everyone else thought it was a thumbs up agreement, this person that

Re: On ECMA International

2013-05-17 Thread Allen Wirfs-Brock
When it comes time for TC39 to approve the final spec version of ES6 it is likely that each participant will be able to point at something in the spec. that they would prefer was different. But they will also agree that approving that version is the best overall course of action.

Re: On ECMA International

2013-05-17 Thread Andrea Giammarchi
This seems more than reasonable so, for what I understand, is majority as long as there's no **concrete** harm/problem/worst damage doing that way that could make someone really disappointed. Aka: consensus On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock al...@wirfs-brock.comwrote: When it

Re: On ECMA International

2013-05-17 Thread Brendan Eich
Andrea Giammarchi wrote: This seems more than reasonable so, for what I understand, is majority No. Majority means 51% wants it, 49% doesn't (simple majority). Consensus means general agreement, and if someone demurs on certain things, they are holding fire and *not* forming a dissenting