Re: proposed surprise hack, was IESG Statement on surprised authors

[Warren Kumari <[e-mail]>]

Yup. This seems like a really nice compromise -- folk who want to can opt
in to this system, and those who don't, well, don't.

<Warren tips hat to John>

I do not participate in the code sprint (busy NOCing at that time), but
otherwise I'd be willing to try add this... although you probably don't
want me anywhere near the codebase :-P

W

On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 12:26 PM Ted Lemon <[e-mail]> wrote:

> On Jun 3, 2015, at 11:21 AM, John Levine <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > Add a new database table of surprise-averse authors.  Allow people to
> > register their addresses, with the usual confirmation click through
> > mail.  Now when an I-D is posted, if it has a surprise-averse author
> > listed and that author isn't on an earlier version of the same I-D,
> > that author has to confirm the draft before it's posted.  (If there
> > are also non-averse authors, they can confirm it too but there's no
> > point since it doesn't move forward until the averse authors do.)
>
> WFM!
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