Frisby, Adam wrote: > I disagree. > > * Commit Rights - those discussions cannot occur in public (although the > discussion archives are open to committers after being invited), the reason > for this is no-one can be frank & honest without hurting people's feelings. > > --- > From the excellent F/OSS guidebook: > http://producingoss.com/en/consensus-democracy.html#electorate > "The voting system itself should be used to choose new committers, both full > and partial. But here is one of the rare instances where secrecy is ...
I think the quote is a bit out of context, the book was released in 2005 when most people were using centralized version control systems CVCS like subversion. I can understand making a big deal about commit access (or rights if you want to put it that way) when you are working with a CVCS because it is pretty constraining to work it, but aren't you moving/have moved to a DVCS[1] (i.e. git) where having commit access to the central repository is something more akin to being the release manager. Edward 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_revision_control _______________________________________________ Opensim-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev
