On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 14:04, Andrew C. Oliver wrote:
> 
> > 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

why?

> Does the term "white elephant" mean anything to you?

thought that was a special kind of elephant...

http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=white%20elephant

...does now.

>  I don't think
> there is anything to forbid a community from temporarily granting CVS
> access.

;)

Well, I think our guidelines forbid us. You cannot give someone CVS
access without giving them all the committer rights and responsibilities
as well. That's the point of the discussion, innit?

> 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.

This is of course, generalising, and we're leading away from the
discussion here. I say we should evaluate role/right/responsibility
granularity, you write an example line of thought of a potential
candidate for a new role to illustrate you disagree, so I provide a
"counterexample".

Not going anywhere; I'd rather see an answer to:

"Why is increased granularity in role/right/responsibility bad in
general?"

and

"Why is defining a new role that is in between the currently defined
roles of contributor and committer in terms of rights and
responsibilities a bad thing?"

cheers,

- Leo



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