On 7/3/2010 7:05 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Sat, 3 Jul 2010, Charles Wilson wrote: >> >> That's an...interesting take. I've never assumed that ANY contribution > > I think that you are attributing to much special status to official > "maintainers". It should not matter where approval comes from as long > as the approval is from a sufficiently qualified person with knowledge > of the subject who has done a proper review and/or actual testing. The > official maintainers are sometimes not qualified to properly review a > patch.
Maybe so... >> That seems like a fast way to lose committer status, IMO. > > While I am sure that it is possible to lose committer status due to > misbehavior, I don't recall this happening in libtool history for any > reason other than the person disappeared from the Internet or requested > that their committer status be removed. Of course not; we wouldn't be very likely to grant such status in the first place to people liable to abuse it. > No one is threatening your > committer status. I didn't say they were. But if I *did* misbehave -- well, I could hardly be surprised by the inevitable consequences, could I? Doesn't take a genius to predict those consequences, either. -- Chuck
