Hello Simon, Am Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 10:46:08AM +0100 schrieb Simon Tournier: > Hierarchy already exists, as in any social group, as in any group of > people collaborating. The hierarchy is currently informal.
while I am sensitive to your argument about privileges, I am afraid that the suggestion would remove privileges from the committers, while not bestowing them on anybody else; as a result, everybody would be worse off than before. Right now one out of the (let us be pessimistic) 20 active committers can push any patch from the issue tracker, say for a package trivially obtained via "guix import pypi ...". With the suggested change, the currently 1 (and in future hopefully one out of a few) members of the python group will have to approve the patch. In that situation, there is no incentive for anybody else to even look at the patch (without agency, why would one bother?), and we will effectively have split the Guix project into a collection of walled gardens. I think this suggestion has the potential to make a stuttering project grind to a complete halt. And I am afraid that we are on a track to replacing joy, agency and community by grind and bureaucracy. I suggest to close this issue due to a weak consensus against the proposal (or at least the lack of a clear consensus for it). Andreas
