Hi Robert,
Scaling up developers with write access to svn is much harder to do.
I don't see that. Both things are mutually exclusive (testing and write
access), and if there are people you have confidence in to review
low-risk submissions then the trunk can be opened up to a few others.
The fact is that right now, there's one person with commit access. If
you just increase it to 2 or 3, it's already a 50% or 66% increase, and
can potentially mean that much less work for you to do on reviewing
submissions. Even factoring in some management overhead that would be a
big gain. You don't have to include tens or hundreds of people, just two
or three would be a good start.
There's no reason why you should be the only one with all the weight on
your shoulders. Yes build breaks will happen, bugs will be introduced,
but that can happen even if it's just you! So I don't see how the
situation will be worse than it is now.
A president or prime minister doesn't have the weight of all decisions
of his country on his own shoulders, he has people around him. Sometimes
they'll make mistakes and he'll have to cover for them and sometimes the
president himself will make mistakes too. Saying that only the president
should take all decisions because that would lead to less mistakes
wouldn't lead to better government I think (then again I'm not a
political analyst, it's just an analogy...).
I know of no other large open source project that has only one person
with write access to the core.
J-S
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