Andrew Pinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| On Jun 4, 2006, at 1:19 PM, Richard Sandiford wrote:
| > I think a system of
| > punishing maintainers is going to make it less attractive for
| > less active maintainers to do anything at all.
|
| You are not punishing the good maintainers, just not so good
| ones.
The trouble is there does not seem to be a clear gain in your
punishment system. At best it may just discourage people.
In a commercial organization, that might be a good system. For a free
project like GCC, it is not obvious where the long-term benefits for
the project are, given its "unconventional" way of "hiring" people.
People get inactive for some period of time for various reasons, some
of whichg are not subject of public debate.
-- Gaby
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Gabriel Dos Reis
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Texas A&M University -- Department of Computer Science
301, Bright Building -- College Station, TX 77843-3112
