There was recently a long debate on the (private) members@ list about lowering technical barriers for commit access. As a result, the Subversion project has already changed its access control settings so that any ASF committer can make changes to the Subversion source code.
I propose that Bloodhound does the same. I have to point out that making this change would /not/ mean that everyone has license to fiddle with the Bloodhound source code without prior consent from the BH dev community. Project member status must still be earned, but the proposed change means that contributions from ASF committers would use up a lot less of the BH developers' time. The proponents of this change are hoping that eventually, most of the ASF projects will move to a more relaxed access control model. Bloodhound, having a relatively small and homogeneous community, would likely profit by lowering the bar for new contributors. -- Brane -- Branko Čibej Director of Subversion | WANdisco | www.wandisco.com
