On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Harrie Hazewinkel wrote: > --On Thursday, September 12, 2002 8:50 AM -0500 "Jenkins, David" > > I disagree almost completely. If you are truly dedicated to the ASF > > community, you will understand the cautiousness necessary in deciding > > who has commit privs. > > I was mainly thinking of bigger pieces of code - code component - and > for those their are mostly also maintainers needed. Those maintainers > are mostly first the donator. For small patches I agree not everyone > should get commit access.
I think it's important to keep in mind that being part of the Apache deliverables is not the only option. Contributors can always spin up their own external opensource project, as was done for mod_ssl, mod_perl, mod_php, etc. Yes, this places more of a burden on the contributor, but that's fair in cases where the contributor desires to maintain tighter control. A side effect of this is that if the component becomes popular, integrating it becomes more compelling. Later, scott
