David Blevins wrote:
I've begged Jason to do it every time I see him for like a year now. He did a little, got busy and handed it off to Brett. Brett's now busy and handing off to John. These guys are pretty busy with the Maven community and obviously having a hard time finding time to help us out as is, don't see any reason not to extend some trust in exchange for their good will.
I always thought that commit is something special, but after chatting with Dave I don't think so anymore. It makes things simpler, but that's it. In fact, the commit privilege is not a gift, it's an obligation that you're in charge of a project and will do your best to make it healthy. It takes our free time so after all people will realize that it makes life harder rather than easier. Only when someone contributes to a project, the commit access is relevant and makes sense. In any other cases, having commit access may only give ilussion that you're part of a project, but without contributing your time, it's a junk.
Thanks Dave for your patience explaining it to me in detail.
They're not looking to be real contributors. This is just the Maven community lending a helping hand to the OpenEJB community's conversion to m2. We're getting special treatment cause we're such nice guys and they like us.
They want to help us, so if they want the commit access, let's give it to them. Time will show if it's really necessary ;) Thanks Jason, Brett and John for your time! I'm now very sorry I could think otherwise.
-David
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