On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Cameron Eagans <[email protected]> wrote: > Ooo, huge +1 to both points (contrib free-for-all, and moving to something > that's not CVS or Subversion). It would be a lot of work to get to that > point, and would likely not be something that could happen for the Drupal 7 > release, but it sounds like a fair goal for Drupal 8!
I was going to lead this thread die. We had this back in ~2006. It was kind of crazy. I don't think it makes sense to go back to it. If someone is interested in following this practice for their own module they can do so: simply add anyone to the list of maintainers that asks for it. But let's not make a sitewide change without some proof that it works well on a few specific projects first. My personal sense is that when I see more than 3-4 maintainers on a project I get concerned that it is probably not architecturally consistent and likely poorly maintained (the "everyone thought it should be done, anyone can do it, nobody did it" problem). The Wikipedia entry on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_space doesn't seem exactly applicable (am I a pedestrian, bicyclist, or urban planner in the analogy?) but another apt way to describe an environment where anyone can do whatever they please is a "commons" as in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons Regards, Greg PS I ignored the whole "move away from cvs" part of this discussion because that is well discussed and well documented at http://groups.drupal.org/node/8102 - needs more testers and more code first. -- Greg Knaddison | 303-800-5623 | http://growingventuresolutions.com Mastering Drupal - http://www.masteringdrupal.com
