[PD-dev] -Wall

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Dec 1, 2005, at 6:17 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Thomas Grill wrote:
>
>> I was always sceptical about large-area changes to the code base and  
>> am
>> pleased that DesireData has its own sandbox within desire.c and some  
>> tcl
>> scripts.
>
> It hasn't. I mean, some things are outside of desire.*, especially
> because they can't be implemented in there.
>
>> i would strongly encourage that larger changes to the code are  
>> discussed
>> before and have to be supported by some majority of people working on
>> the branch.
>
> If there is a majority then there has to be a population. If there's a
> population then there has to be a list of the electorate. So, who's
> allowed to vote and who's not?

Yes, we do need to define a collective decision process.  But for such  
things, just a consensus of the pd-dev list has worked pretty well,  
i.e. post your suggested changes, and wait for some responses.

.hc

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