<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 8:01 PM, James Walker <<a href="mailto:walkah@walkah.net">walkah@walkah.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Uh oh, angie... ;-)<br>
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On 21-Feb-08, at 1:37 PM, Angela Byron wrote:<br>
> James Walker wrote:<br>
>> On 21-Feb-08, at 7:57 AM, Moshe Weitzman wrote:<br>
>>> FYI, what Karoly proposes is exactly how the Mozilla project works.<br>
>>> Each patch needs a "super review" from a fixed (but large) list of<br>
>>> reveiwers. See <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/hacking/" target="_blank">http://www.mozilla.org/hacking/</a> <br></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Truth is, we're not so different. Mozilla has *thousands* of<br>
contributors ... they're an older, bigger project... and I think we<br>
can stand to learn from them as well as others out there. Shoulders<br>
of giants 'n' all that :-)<br>
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</font></blockquote><div> </div></div>Yesterday I found this post of Stefano Mazzocchi (<a href="http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/104/">http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/104/</a>) very inspiring and I think his reflections (and Linus words too) on the difference between CVS/SVN and GIT and implications on community governance are very appropriate to issue raised on this thread.<br>
<br>It's no matter of religion wars on versioning tools (a knife is a knife no matter you can kill someone or enjoy some pate' on a croasted bread) it's the fact that some model (delegation of the autority) could be better than other (MAINTAINERS.txt).<br>
<br>Maybe Linux is too far from our little blue word but I guess that if we want to preserve the "passion" of this community we wouldn't move through a more beuarocratic system.<br><br>Well, I don't have any idea which solution could work, but still I think the debate should take this point very seriously.<br>
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