David Jencks wrote, On 7/12/2005 10:32 AM:
I'd like to reemphasize that bringing in new committers with their code is going to be a lot of work for the existing community. If we fail to integrate a donation a very large part of the responsibility rests with us for not having good enough community skills to work with the newcomers. It seems to me that discussions about limited commit access/ acls/ etc are fundamentally discussions about what happens if we fail. I wonder what would happen if we instead discussed how we will provide superb support and mentoring for our new members and left the questions of what to do if we fail to such time as it might be needed.
Very good points. My thought was that isolating the contributions would be done to make the mentor's job easier. It would not be meant as a DMZ, which would limit a project's potential flameout.
Regards, Alan
