We made the change just a week or so ago, so yeah: no metrics yet. Branko put it well: why not remove technical barriers. If an Allura dev shows up with a patch/tweak, and we say "ooh. nice", then our devs merely say +1 and the contributor commits. No ACL or LDAP changes. No patch downloaded/applied. Just an email saying "thanks".
This is version control. Anything can be rolled back. I like to turn the question around: why *should* we erect technical barriers? (yes, we still have social barriers, and expect people to engage) (obviously: +1 to the OP) Cheers, -g On Jan 8, 2013 4:28 AM, "Peter Koželj" <[email protected]> wrote: > I guess the SVN's change probably isn't long enough to have any feedback on > how well that works, > but I do agree that this is an option worth trying. I guess we > can always switch back if it does not work. > > Peter > > > On 7 January 2013 22:58, Joe Dreimann <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I see a far bigger risk of not receiving contributions than of receiving > > poor quality / malicious contributions at this point. If this is a proven > > approach for svn, I have no objection to the change. > > > > - Joe > > > > ________________________ > > @jdreimann - Twitter > > Sent from my phone > > > > On 7 Jan 2013, at 21:06, Branko Čibej <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > There was recently a long debate on the (private) members@ list about > > > lowering technical barriers for commit access. As a result, the > > > Subversion project has already changed its access control settings so > > > that any ASF committer can make changes to the Subversion source code. > > > > > > I propose that Bloodhound does the same. > > > > > > I have to point out that making this change would /not/ mean that > > > everyone has license to fiddle with the Bloodhound source code without > > > prior consent from the BH dev community. Project member status must > > > still be earned, but the proposed change means that contributions from > > > ASF committers would use up a lot less of the BH developers' time. > > > > > > The proponents of this change are hoping that eventually, most of the > > > ASF projects will move to a more relaxed access control model. > > > Bloodhound, having a relatively small and homogeneous community, would > > > likely profit by lowering the bar for new contributors. > > > > > > -- Brane > > > > > > -- > > > Branko Čibej > > > Director of Subversion | WANdisco | www.wandisco.com > > > > > >
