> Yeah, exactly. And what if there is someone who actually wants less > responsibility and less rights than a committer, but still more than a > contributor? >
-1 > It is all about granularity: less rights, less responsibility. > > > "Gee I'd like to dump my code > > here and not bother with the community".... > > "Gee I've created this amazing forked version of your codebase (this > amazing book about your project, ..., ...) and now got permission from > my employer to contribute it back. This is quite a lot of stuff, you can > find it at http://somewhere/ to look at. If you accept, do you want 20MB > worth of patches or can you give me CVS access?" > > What if the community would very much like you to provide that stuff, > you're already committer in other apache projects, but have no time to > support your submission for longer than, say, a month? Should you be > committer for a month? > Does the term "white elephant" mean anything to you? I don't think there is anything to forbid a community from temporarily granting CVS access. I would say such a "gift" should not be interpreted with the direct meaning of the word in German. Such things usually are wrought with problems and with this person who dumps a bunch of code into your repository and leaves, well generally it reduces the quality of your codebase and no one who IS part of the community knows the code. -Andy > etc etc etc. > > cheers, > > - Leo > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- http://www.superlinksoftware.com - software solutions for business http://jakarta.apache.org/poi - Excel/Word/OLE 2 Compound Document in Java http://krysalis.sourceforge.net/centipede - the best build/project structure a guy/gal could have! - Make Ant simple on complex Projects! The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote. -Ambassador Kosh -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
