As I said, our overlords are kind and benevolent and I'm sure that the mention of "evil plans" was simply a joke as such wise and noble developers could need harbor a malevolent thought. But, unless I've been misreading this mailing list, all patches have to go through our current enlightened leader before becoming part of the patch count in the wine tree. Not that the powers that be are susceptible to temptation, but lesser mortals might find that being more selective about whose patches are accepted during periods of discontent as an easy way to influence such a vote. Likewise, even if such a mortal didn't give into temptation, if the usurpers lose the vote they could always claim such impropriety did take place.
My point is that the math isn't in your argument's favor. It would take a long period of rejection by the current overlords before being able to squelch any hypothetical usurpers, given that a) the current overlords' contributions consist of Alexandre's, and b) he does not constitute a controlling majority of contributions, nor anywhere close to it. --Juan