On Dec 28, 2010, at 11:54 AM, VP wrote: > > I love the fact that if I have a problem with web2py and asked a > question, Massimo will likely answer it. But the perceptual problem > of web2py is a single-person effort is real. Massimo fixes most of > the bugs (it seems so). Massimo is mainly responsible for PR. > Massimo is in charge of experts4solution (it appears so). Massimo is > mainly in charge of documentation (the book) (it appears so). > > Note that these are not necessary bad things. But the concern is > real. Now, you can say this issue should not be a concern (i.e. we are > okay with the current setup). Then that's a different perspective, a > different story.
Offhand, I can think of at least three major projects that have a single person in charge, in one way or another: Linux, OpenBSD and Python. I don't know much about the OpenBSD and Python patch processes, but all Linux patches go through Linus. So in that sense, Massimo's role is not unprecedented.
