[MPlayer-dev-eng] [POLICY] clarify conditions for functionality removal

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Thursday, 09 February 2006 at 02:08, The Wanderer wrote:
> Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 02:44:55PM +0200, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
> >
> >>2006/2/8, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de>:
> 
> >>>Ivan, you are evading my main argument and the point why I made
> >>>the patch/commit in the first place: That I was just putting
> >>>*current practice* into writing.  You haven't addressed this
> >>>point at all..
> >>
> >>I did. And I said that this is not the current practice.
> >
> >It *is* current practice.  No rules are set in stone.  Things are
> >discussed on dev-eng until a consensus is reached.
> 
> I'd just like to note that that is not what the current form says, nor
> is it what the old form said about "changing behaviour". No mention is
> made of "consensus"; all it says is that discussion must take place, not
> that the discussion must reach any particular conclusion first. Saying
> "discussing it on the mplayer-dev-eng mailing list and receiving some
> form of consensus approval" would avoid the problem.

Or just "... without being approved in a discussion on the mplayer-dev-eng
mailing list".

Regards,
R.

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