Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <m...@tobias.gr> writes: > Hi Simon, all, > > I'll give your long and thoughtful reply the attention it deserves > when I have time, but there's another misleading tangent that has > bothered me (elsewhere) in this discussion: > >> - cathedral, as it is today > > This is revisionist. The Bazaar model perfectly describes Guix, where > everyone is free to submit changes and have them critiqued and revised > in public. Even maintainers are expected to submit. Changes that meet > $criteria are merged into a source tree immediately available to > everyone. > > Guix has never used the Cathedral model, where patch submission and > discussion happen behind closed doors, to be released unto the public > as a revelation from on high. > > ‘People push nontrivial changes without review’ was never a condition > of the Bazaar model or what made it successful. The book was based on > LKML, for heaven's sake! :-) > > We can find a cute new name for what's being proposed in this thread > (the Wailing Wall model?), but simply declaring ‘the Bazaar is called > Cathedral now, change my mind’ can't work.
Tobias, I couldn't agree more!!! -- André A. Gomes "Free Thought, Free World"
