On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Thomas Anderson <zeln...@gmail.com> wrote: > What's wrong with a dictator for life? Larry Wall is the dictator for > life for Perl but that doesn't mean that Perl isn't a meritocracy...
We aim for high bus factors at Apache, dictator goes against that. > ...Besides, what qualifies as "dictator for life" behavior, anyway? If > all the contributors to a project are Sun employees, wouldn't Sun be > essentially a dictator for life? And even if Sun doesn't engage in > "dictator for life" behavior, what about Oracle, who bought Sun?... Sure - that's why we require committers from at least three independent commercial entities for graduation, and projects are supposed to watch this "rule" over their lifetime as well. -Bertrand --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
