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

[Diego Biurrun]

On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 09:31:39PM +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Thursday, 09 February 2006 at 02:08, The Wanderer wrote:
> > Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > >
> > >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".

Simple, clear, concise and I think it captures the spirit.  Please commit.

Thanks for this constructive contribution.

Diego