On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò <flamee...@flameeyes.eu> wrote: > You're free to disagree and not become a developer. But with commit > _rights_ come commit _responsibility_. If you commit something for > somebody else, you're still responsible if it breaks somebody else's > package, it doesn't exempt you from not doing _your_ work.
++ We do have a trust with our users. It doesn't mean that non-devs don't write good code. They do. However, the purpose of vetted developers is to be a gatekeeper to what runs on our user's systems. Devs also should be good at spotting problems with ebuilds that cause issues that might not be apparent from simply running emerge. That's the value Gentoo adds as a distro. Anybody can publish an overlay, but devs are required to get stuff in the tree. All that said, anything we can do to lower barriers to contribution while maintaining quality is a good thing. I don't want devs to be afraid of committing things, but they should be making an honest effort to catch issues. Rich
