It's an OK idea. I think it is definitely a good idea to let more artists have access, since right now there are, I think, 3 people who can commit new images. We should basically give access for art to anyone who asks for it.
With music, which is harder to create, I think we should leave it as it is - all new music has to go through Aleksi. That keeps the music quality high. Bad new music is worse than bad new art, since it adds so much more to the download, and music is so much harder to get right... so, yeah. With changes to scenarios and such, I agree. Everyone should be allowed to make balancing changes to scenarios and such, although obviously the author would have the last word. I disagree about the policy on major changes, though. Your example of "hey, I want to add this unit to the game" -> "go right ahead" seems fundamentally flawed to me. There have been many, many new unit propositions in the past, most of which don't meet the set criteria. I think that if we start allowing new units into the game without taking a serious look at them, we'll end up having a lot of new units in each release, most of which are gone by the next. Personally, I think it is better for us to tell someone that their unit is not good enough, rather than to let them put it into the game and get excited about it being accepted, and then we have to take it out. That would be even more discouraging for them than to just have their unit rejected. About new campaigns, I do agree we should add new ones to the game - although not very many. Perhaps 2 or 3. Remember, the campaign server is extremely easy to access. I think what would be better than adding new campaigns to the game itself would be to have an "official" campaign server, which you need authorization to upload something to. So, basically, there would instead of two tiers be three. In-game (restricted to the best campaigns) > Official server (which you need to have authorization to upload something to, and there is some degree of quality assurance, but all well-maintained campaigns would get in) > Open server (where anyone can upload new campaigns). Finally, I think that if we give everyone who wants access to SVN gets it, we should change how members are described on our gna! page. Instead of only having senior developers and developers, we should have senior developers, developers, and contributors... all of which have SVN access... I'm done rambling now. -- Joseph Simmons Túrin Turambar, master of doom, by doom mastered www.wesnoth.org
