Jakob Petsovits wrote:
On Saturday, 31. May 2008, Jakob Petsovits wrote: [snip]
But that is the core of the issue at hand here - we've got lots of CVS accounts, but we don't trust them a single bit. Instead of relying on trust and goodwill, we rely on technical measures to lock out potential helpers before they even get the chance to do something wrong. [snip]
Ok, I figured that people way smarter than me would have no problem demonstrating why we should not do it the way that I proposed. I can live with that :)
Hope it was not a complete waste of your time, maybe someone else can find a way some time on how not to make mistrust the default.
No, it was a fine suggestion, no worries. :) Plus it was fun to re-live my days as a total n00b. ;) The only thing I could think of is some kind of flag a maintainer can optionally (opt-in!) set to mark their project "open" which allows anyone who wants to to commit stuff to it. I'd probably do that with every single one of my modules, since I'm a truly awful maintainer. :D And then people like Earl Miles could NOT opt-in since his module is important and he's clueful about its inner workings, but d.o webmasters could enable this flag if a module was known to be abandoned and not have a suitable person to take over. I wouldn't put this higher on the priority list than other things though, like, say, porting Project* to D6. :) -Angie