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etc.
- Unanimous Consent
+ Without Objection
- - Any core member may get Unanimous Consent of core to do
- something.
- - This person shall send mail to core asking for unanimous
- consent.
- - If no one objects within 48 hours, then core has approved it
- (or sooner if (2/3 * core-size) members say yes).
+ - Any core member may ask core, via email, if they can take
+ some mundane action, subject to a quick sanity check of the
+ rest of core.
+ - If no one objects within 48 hours, then that person may proceed
+ (or sooner if (2/3 * core-size) members agree).
- If there are any objections, then it will be resolved via the
issue voting procedure.
+ - Core secretary may send the OK to proceed message, as the
+ secretary deems appropriate.
- Any committer may get unanimous consent of core to do something so
- long as at least one core member says 'yes' and the previous paragraph
- is otherwise followed.
-
- Unanimous Consent is a specific term used by the US Senate
- to mean 'without objection' and is used instead of a formal vote
- for routine matters.
-
+ Any committer also use this mechanism so long as at least one
+ core member says 'yes' and the previous paragraph is otherwise
+ followed. It is intended to be used for mundane matters that
+ need a quick sanity check, but don't need a more heavy weight
+ and deliberative process. It is believed that the subset of
+ core present for any given 48 period are sufficient for both
+ sanity checking mundane matters and recognizing non-mundane
+ matters that need to be handled via the issues voting
+ procedure.
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