On Sun, 23 Feb 2014 17:59:48 +0100 Peter Stuge <pe...@stuge.se> wrote:
> Tom Wijsman wrote: > > I'd say that if around 7 people vote on the matter that that is > > based on a necessary amount of understanding. > > That is just incredibly naïve. > > In another project five people reviewed an experimental change > written by me that someone else proposed for inclusion into the > project without my knowledge or consent. > > Not a single person thought to communicate with me about the change > and not a single person realized that there were enormous fundamental > problems with the change. (Why *I* hadn't proposed it for inclusion.) > > In history lessons you may have learned about majorities of > populations supporting something the same individuals consider a > pretty darn bad idea in hindsight, but which they were unable to > decide on correctly at the time. > > You need to learn to respect what you don't know that you don't know. Or you apply knowledge codification and mark it as experimental. -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : tom...@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D
