yet another rule to discuss

[William Hubbs]

On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 07:34:00PM +0200, Andrei Kholodnyi wrote:
> > I am not sure about that. ?Hynek was fine with my suggestion, and the
> > only people I heard really protesting it were you and Halim, so it was
> > not a majority of people, but a very vocal minority. ?There is something
> > called the "silent majority" which wasn't being taken into
> > consideration.
> 
> I suppose the "silent majority" will raise now its hand supporting your patch.

Not necessarily, the "silent majority" doesn't care about what happens
either way.

> > Second, I'm not sure that this is list material or that a "rule" needs
> > to be set up. ?I think this is just a misunderstanding that needed to be
> > resolved between myself and Andrei.
> 
> I'd like to know what should I do as a reviewer in this situation.
> e.g. ask for a vote and then submit a patch with major votes.
> drop both patches or something else.