I see a far bigger risk of not receiving contributions than of receiving poor quality / malicious contributions at this point. If this is a proven approach for svn, I have no objection to the change.
- Joe ________________________ @jdreimann - Twitter Sent from my phone On 7 Jan 2013, at 21:06, Branko Čibej <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
