Lennart Regebro <regebro <at> gmail.com> writes: > > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 17:42, R. David Murray <rdmurray <at> 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.
In an open source community, "merit" relates to that community. We don't give Linus Torvalds all rights on the project just because we know (or assume ;-)) he is tremendously competent. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
