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Re:The End of the Redis Adventure by ddevault on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @12:28PM (#23691780)
If you're comparing FreeBSD to Linux then I think that says a lot about the merits of BDFLs, really.
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Re:The End of the Redis Adventure by erk__ on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @02:02PM (#23692889)
Did FreeBSD not have the discussion about this years ago? Though they did not have a single person, but a 20 person core team, which were cut down to a 9 person core team that is voted for every 2 years.

http://freebsd.dk/sagas/freebsd/#id1

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Re:The End of the Redis Adventure by trasz on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @04:41AM (#23699293)
The core team doesn’t really make technical decisions. It’s more for administrative/social/governance type stuff.
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Re:The End of the Redis Adventure by erk__ on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @07:10AM (#23700174)
Who would then make the technical decisions? The owners of the different sub systems?
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Re:The End of the Redis Adventure by trasz on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @08:39AM (#23700680)
There's no hard rule. The committers are expected to behave like a civilised human beings, ie talk to each other to reach consensus.

Let's say you have a fix for some driver used on ARM. You'll submit it via Phabricator to get ARM maintainers to review it. If they don't, because eg they don't have time, then you'll probably commit it anyway, but if someone points out you did something wrong, you'll be expected to fix it.

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Re:The End of the Redis Adventure by moonchild on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @04:52PM (#23694637)
Sounds similar to debian, which is also a very successful and stable project.
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