On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 20:30, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > Lennart Regebro <regebro <at> gmail.com> writes: >> >> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 17:42, R. David Murray <rdmurray <at> bitdance.com> > wrote: >> > The first is that open source projects tend to be meritocracies. >> > An otherwise unknown person being introduced to the community and >> > immediately given privileges *just* because of the recommendation of >> > another person >> >> Since the recommendation is based on the persons merit, I fail to see >> the difference. > > In an open source community, "merit" relates to that community. We don't give > Linus Torvalds all rights on the project just because we know (or assume ;-)) > he > is tremendously competent.
Well, that's a blow against the merit-based position then. :) -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com