Re: Split group?

From:
John Ersatznom <j.ersatz@nowhere.invalid>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 26 Dec 2006 19:37:28 -0500
Message-ID:
<emsf8m$kio$2@aioe.org>
Greg R. Broderick wrote:

Chris Smith <cdsmith@twu.net> wrote in news:MPG.1ff84707c83fc8939897a2
@news.altopia.net:

John Ersatznom <j.ersatz@nowhere.invalid> wrote:

Perhaps whoever manages these things might look into maybe merging those
[comp.lang.java.beans, c.l.j.corba, c.l.j.databases] into c.l.j.web or
similarly and suggesting shifting the jsp, servlet, etc. traffic here to
that group.


"Whoever manages these things" is a process defined for big-8 newsgroup
hierarchies, and managed in the newsgroup "news.groups". The process
involves submitting an RFD (request for discussion), which will
eventually progress to a CFV (call for votes), after which everyone will
vote and you get to find out whether the change gets made or not. The
proposal succeeds if BOTH:

 a) it gets at least 100 more YES votes than NO votes
 b) it gets at least twice as many YES votes as NO votes


Actually, the process has, relatively recently, changed significantly. See
<http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php> for details


Yes, but see where for the capsule summary comparable to the a), b) list
you quoted?

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