On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 4:50 PM, David Hubbard david.c.hubbard+coreboot@gmail.com wrote:
I've been thinking about it all day and it seems Vladimir is pretty much spot on, "The proposition of gatekeepers would essentially kill community effort."
There's just something I'm clearly not understanding here.
For the first year or so of linuxbios, I was the gatekeeper. Nobody but me could push into the repo. We had lots of involvement.
For many open source projects I've been contributing to, there's always a set of gatekeepers, and there's tons of community involvement. E.G., Go has a restricted set of people who can let a patch go into the upstream, and there is no shortage of people contributing. When I worked on FreeBSD, I was never one of the people who could push a patch into the repo, but my changes were accepted. It never bothered me much; those were the rules and I thought they made sense.
So what is the issue again? I'm trying to understand. Is it the limited number? Is it the existence of gatekeepers at all?
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