| The changes being proposed by Greg and Johan, as I understand it, would | amount to the following. I'm willing to give it a try; we can always go | back if it doesn't work out. | | - maintainers are empowered to make API changes. | | - no formal review process for API changes, although there is an | expectation that non-trivial changes would still be discussed on | the list beforehand. | | - we would still have a clearly documented path for contributions | and proposals | | - commit messages are copied to the list, and should | detail API changes sufficiently that the community | can keep an eye on what is happening and comment. | | - we get more maintainers (presumably they'll just appear, or | something? :-) To which we might add: - only maintainers commit patches - each library, especially including the core libraries, has a named maintainer (or a small number of same) I'd be ok with this. Simon