Niclas Hedhman wrote:
Question; Should Open Source be Open Participation?
I am sure that the upper-tier of ASF would shiver at the thought that hordes of people can gain direct access to the repositories. They/we will dust of the same arguments of why Wiki won't work. But it does. Why? Because *most* people *want* it to work.
i wrote about some of the reasons behind gated communities, and possible ways to address some of their issues, here:
http://www.advogato.org/article/657.html
might be tangentially interesting to the current discussion.
also, with floss turning into a fashionable research area, there is a pile of papers that look into reputation etc:
http://mit.oscom.org/search/lucene?queryString=reputation http://mit.oscom.org/search/lucene?queryString=review http://mit.oscom.org/search/lucene?queryString=httpd
-gregor
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