finding concensus (was: [Biocorba-l] BSANE and bioCORBA)

[Ewan Birney]

On Thu, 31 May 2001, Martin Senger wrote:

> [ ...another extracted topic from the previous message... ]
> 
> > > > 
> > > > I don't want to force BioCorba development into the OMG development model
> > > > of voting etc because I think it sucks, but I am more than happy to bend
> > > > BioCorba to play well with BSANE in the Sequence area.
> > > 
> > > What is the alternative? I do not see voting as bad idea.
> > 
> > The alternative is classic open source "rough consensus" - works for IETF,
> > Apache, BSD etc etc etc.
> >
> 
>    Juha and me are not pushing the OMG voting model. It works fine,
> probably much better than Ewan thinks, but it's not the point. Here we
> will use "rough consensus" and we will hope that it will work (it might
> actually :-)). Then, with results achieved here, Juha will go to the LSR
> and present it there. It may not be hard because the only partner in
> the submission of BSANE is NetGenics,Inc. and these guys are also on this
> list, so they will hopefully participate in the "rough consensus" process.

Sounds good. 


> 
>    Martin
> 
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