On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 19:42 -0400, Nathan L. Adams wrote: [snip] > What I see with Gentoo is this 'cathedral' being built where only those > folks who have been 'approved' or 'blessed' as being l33t enough are > allowed to review the code and actually cause a positive change when > some bug is found. So you want to give every user who asks for it full CVS access? Uhm ... > If you believe Chris Gianelloni's argument, then only > those blessed developers who are also blessed by a particular group > within Gentoo are allowed. Eventually the meritocracy degrades into a > popularity contest. Nonsense. Every person that shows dedication and some basic skills can become developer If you want to argue for the fun of it, go debian yourself ;-) > What I want is for Gentoo to be more of a 'bazaar' where anyone with a > good idea gets listened to and anyone with a good patch gets their name > in the credits Isn't that already what is done? Every good patch/bugfix will be assimilated if it does something useful in an understandable way ... > Yes this is a volanteer distribution. That's a blessing, not a curse! > That means that you DON'T HAVE DEADLINES. You can take the time to do it > right instead of just 'code it up, test it once, and pray it really works'. Yes, so please shut up and let us do our thing ;-)
wkr, Patrick -- Stand still, and let the rest of the universe move
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