The "bar" to committing on Struts is NOT the issue. The issue is the mess. I cannot agree more with Jonathan. It is soooo good to hear from someone who sounds mature and sensible.
On 3/23/06, Dave Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jonathan Revusky wrote: > > I already am spending too much time on this [...] > > Agreed. > > > 2. I know that there is significant animosity towards me here [...] > > My animosity towards you is from years ago, actually; I won't speak for > anybody else. > > > From whence???? From whence???? Is the Shakespearean festival nigh? > > Ooo! A zinger! Forsooth! > > > It's just mind-boggling to be trying to answer this kind of question > > really.... > > I imagine that it is, for you... trying to imagine how an open-source > project that was developed for somebody else's use might not be > obligated to listen to anybody else. > > >> It appears as though you believe that if someone is willing and able to > >> pitch in that they should have commit rights, which is not really the > >> same thing. > > As a practical matter, it basically means giving people commit rights. > > Trying to let people work on stuff while keeping them at arm's length > > just is unlikely to work for long. If you're going to let someone do > > some work, yeah, you have to open the door and let them in. > > I really don't believe we're so far apart on this: I think the bar for > commiting to Struts is too high as well. At the same time, I would > definitely _not_ give commit rights to anybody that asked for them, and > the project would be better off for it. > > Even in the limited scope of this mailing list I have seen some pretty > frightening code--I would _not_ want the authors of said code to be able > to inject similar code into the project, and I would _not_ want to have > to surf the repository regularly to remove or fix it. > > > At the moment, I think it is mostly because this whole dysfunctional > > scene exerts a morbid fascination on me. It's actually funny in a very > > dark humor sort of way, you know. > > On this we are in perfect agreement :) > > Dave > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- "You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it float on its back." ~Dakota Jack~
