On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:09:58 -0400, Tom Hanlon <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 24 Mar 2010, at 19:47, Stewart Smith wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 08:06:27 -0400, Jay Pipes <[email protected]>  
> > wrote:
> >> I think it's unreasonable to have every plugin ever built live in the
> >> Drizzle mainline.
> >
> > linux-kernel manages it... and it has a great many more of them. We
> > should scale in number of contributors able to do some review along  
> > with
> > number of plugins.
> >
> 
> Does the linux kernel keep every plugin or module that was ever  
> "built" live in the mainline.. Or do they keep every plugin that has  
> an active maintainer in the mainline.

That has an active maintainer.... or until it's too burdensome to
maintain it.

> I think you would need aggressive enforcement of maintainers for each  
> plugin.. if you enforce that.. No maintainer or it goes.. rule then  
> you can.

That would be the idea. If it stagnates and we know it hasn't worked for
12 months... and nobody has even complained... it's gone :)

-- 
Stewart Smith

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