> As a rule of thumb, hanging "actively" around for half a year or more > and getting in three or four non-trivial (say > 15 lines of "real > stuff") patches should be (again) the required minimum.
I absolutely don't like such stupid rules. Whether someone is given commit permissions or not should be decided from case to case. Take for example Richard or Stefan, when we used your half a year rule, LyX 1.5 would not be in such stable state it currently is.
Uwe
