On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 08:49, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: > I remember that I had a discussion with Peter on this one ;-) since I > had vetoed something I hadn't worked on and it got Peter upset...
I didn't get upset - however others were calling for your blood ;) When someone has put in a lot of work to get something somewhere and then without participating or even knowledge of what they are doing you try to block them... Well you are bound to ruffle more than a few feathers. You want to change the way things work? Then you better be willing to put in some work to change them. If you just want to lord it from on high ... well I am not sure that fits in with Apaches idea of meritocracy. > Personally I think that each committer has the same rights on all code, > but I'd like to hear different opinions from others too... Until relatively recently I thought much the same though in the last year or so I have changed my mind. I remember at one stage me and Sam were trying to convince Jon that we should flatten CVS permissions - didn't fly though as he pointed out you occasionally get problem committers. You have seen the problems that occured in avalon when egos get power that they dont deserve. And it is all but impossible to remove a committer once in position and there is no process in place to stop them doing fucked up things. Then again it also can also cause some significant harm. ie Sam or Stefan get irritated when they can't go in and fix up gump problems directly when they should be able to. You have also seen Paul go through the whole Avalon codebase and fix up all our build scripts. Anyhow you may notice that I have been confusing voting and commit privlidges. It was kinda deliberate. Most people confuse them. Personally I think that voting privlidges are something that are given by the developers of the component. That ensures that a certain level of cooperation and direction is built into the community. However it also does not stop people who want to go through and fix spelling mistakes, build file errors and whatnot. -- Cheers, Peter Donald "All my life I wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific." -- Jane Wagner
