On Sat, 25 May 2002, Pier Fumagalli wrote: > "Jeff Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > .. and thankful that people like Costin persevere in spite of rather > > vicious abuse. > > Vicious abuse? All I am proposing is to add greater flexibility to the > freedom of those who are involved with the Jakarta project. > > All I'm proposing is to accept the idea that we might have coders who don't > care about new projects or PMCs, they just want their code done, or that we > might have important resources out there who might want to get involved with > this project but cannot be tied to one particular code base? > > Is it a vicious abuse to ask Sally to become an ASF member ALTHOUGH she > doesnąt know how to code in C or Java, or Perl, and doesn't even know what > CVS is all about?
There is no requirement for someone to know C or Java for becomming a commiter. All you need is make contributions to the project. I've seen no language requirement ( Java or English ) We have plenty of people who don't care about politics - they just don't vote or are smart enough to not participate in the flame-wars. > Is it a vicious abuse to ask to free this community from a concept like > "meritocracy as the number of lines of code you put into CVS"? > > I don't think so, because if this community believes that "freedom" is a > vicious abuse, this community is racist, racist towards those who can't or > don't want to have to deal with CVS, no more and no less as one could be > racist on the color of your skin, or the ideas that populate your mind... Having hierarchies of 'people can only code' and 'people who lead' is not freedom. Creating a group that is 'more equal than the others' and taking away the right to vote to those we believe don't care is not freedom. Costin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
