jesus X wrote:
>Then more of us will have to bang on it.
>
It won't work. We tried with PGP, and failed.
>I think the situation there is that they tend to have a higher level of trust,
>knowing the person personally, but which may not be 100% earned.
>
See, how often hyatt, Ben Goodger (my personal friends) et al cause
major regressions. (It is true that they do a lot, but they still break
things over-proportionally, it seems.) No trust warranted.
If what you suspect is true, they didn't get the nature of open-source.
It works over the internet. Meeting someone in person doesn't make him
more trustworthy.
>But to be fair, I saw a large decrease in those tendencies since NS6, and and
>even larger decrease is the "class" mentality since 6.1 got some great feedback.
>
I'm almost out of development since 6.1, but it seemed to me that things
went worse since shortly before 6.0PR3.
Note that not only individual contributors complain. NAI has a rotting
patch, Sun Ireland seems to be pissed off. (Finally, someone starts to
care about Sun's latest patch, almost 5 months after the patch has been
submitted. Note that is was substantional work of a whole team of
developers.)
>Some good proof is taking off from 0.9.2 rather than freezing the whole tree
>(like leading up to 0.6).
>
No. 6.0 came from the same branch that 6.0PR3 came from.
