7 Dispute Resolution

When two people agree on everything, one of them isn’t needed.

I can’t remember where that quote comes from so if anyone reading this knows, please let us know so we can give credit where credit is due.

We are all mature adults and most of the time we don’t let our egos get in the way of getting things done. But human nature being what it is means that from time to time we’ll have conflict or disagreements. In the vast majority of these cases a resolution will come quickly and easily through reasonable discussion.

This section is for those rare occasions that will be the exception to the above.

In the event of a unresolvable dispute, the SXEmacs Project Lead, Steve Youngs, will, at his discretion, take one or more of the following steps…

• Decide the outcome.
• Call a vote Voting.
• Call a postponement. This will mean that all parties will be asked to stop discussing the matter until some date in the future. This future date will be given at the time the SXEmacs Project Lead calls the postponement. The idea here is to give everyone a chance to cool down so that reasonable discussion can continue.

To date, we’ve not ever had to resort to these. We tend to sort things out pretty quickly and amicably most of the time.