On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 10:53:35PM -0600, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
On Sat, 4 May 2013 05:32:18 +0100 Matthew Garrett mjg59@srcf.ucam.org wrote:
If you want to change a decision, it helps if you're discussing it in a forum that's read by the people who made that decision.
This is a perfectly appropriate forum where their authority for making this decision is to be discussed before it's revoked if necessary.
The authority for making this decision is, as always, in the hands of the individuals who write the code. We do have a process for overruling that authority, but that's a last resort - people should assume that maintainers are acting in good faith and engage in a discussion *with the maintainers* before thinking about ways of forcing them to revert.