> As soon as you try to give your process the air of "due process" you have lost. It's worth remembering that people (rightly, I think) get far angrier about b

> As soon as you try to give your process the air of "due process" you have lost. It's worth remembering that people (rightly, I think) get far angrier about breakdowns of due process than the absence of it. Some of the people upset about the Drupal mess recently didn't seem to care much about the specifics of what happened, but were incredibly disturbed that the official process appeared to have been circumvented. At that point it would have been far better to say up front "we make decisions at our discretion, in the manner we choose".