coding conventions : getUrl vs getURL

Tom Zeller tzeller at dragonacea.biz
Mon Mar 11 22:27:25 EDT 2013


> In any engineering decision by the team there can only be 100% consensus.
> Not voting, consensus.  This is why we are a meritocracy not a dictatorship
> and *absolutely* not a democracy.  Everyone has to have bought in to the
> project decisions; being voted down is not buy in.

I see voting not as contrary to consensus but the result.

> - "I agree with you"
> - "I have no opinion so I demur [and/or you have the
> seniority/experience/right to make the right decision"]
> - "I disagree, but I have confidence in you as an engineer so we'll do it
> your way (and I promise not to whine about it)"
> - "I disagree and here is why (when we bottom out our differences I promise
> not to whine about it)

Might match the apache +1, 0, -0.5, -1.


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