On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 03:26:42PM +0200, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > > 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.
That's why "a rule of thumb". There might be exceptions. Andre'