On Wednesday, January 27, 2016, Justin Pettit <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> > On Jan 27, 2016, at 4:45 PM, Russell Bryant <[email protected]
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > I'm OK going either way here, but hopefully that helps explain my
> > motivation.
>
> I understand the motivation and agree with it in principal, but I share
> Ben's concern about it becoming territorial.  Understanding the landscape
> is really only important when it comes to committers, since they could in
> theory commit something that someone with more domain expertise doesn't
> like.  Historically, this hasn't been a big deal, since there was only one
> project (OVS), and by the time someone became a committer, they had a
> pretty good lay of the land.  Now that we have OVN, someone could have an
> understanding of one project, but start committing in the other without
> knowing who the experts are.
>
> I suspect that in the long term, OVN will become a standalone project with
> its own set of committers that is not identical to OVS's.  I think then
> we'd be back with the committers generally knowing who works on what in
> their particular project, and it will sort of solve itself.  If we start
> declaring "owners" of certain modules, we could move from a de facto
> holding back for a knowledgable opinion to developers declaring that people
> can't commit to "their" modules.
>
>
OK, sounds good. Thanks for the discussion about it!

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Russell Bryant
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