On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 17:42, R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> wrote: > The first is that open source projects tend to be meritocracies. > An otherwise unknown person being introduced to the community and > immediately given privileges *just* because of the recommendation of > another person
Since the recommendation is based on the persons merit, I fail to see the difference. > may feel (especially to the non privileged) like a kind > of nepotism. ("It's not what you contribute, it's who you know"). That is only a problem if we break the rules for certain people. But this discussion isn't about breaking the rules, but changing them. -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com