[OT] Re: CVS Access Lists WAS Re: [PD-dev] sourceforge tarball problem

[guenter geiger]

On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Chris McCormick wrote:
> [perhaps stating the obvious]
> Infact, I'd say that the whole basis of open source development is about social protocols rather than programatic protocols. Anyone
> could take the sources to the Linux kernel or Pd and rename it to "McCormix" or "unpure-data" a lot like what happened with Xemacs.
> But as long as the project has good maintainership like Miller or Linus provide, people will continue to follow correct social
> protocol and defer their additions/modifications of the source to that central maintainer.
> In a way this is the perfect blend of democracy and socialism. If only we could design the code of governance and law in the same way
> maybe we'd live in a utopia. That or total anarchy, which might be just as fun.
> [/perhaps]
hola,

this is very similar to what I wanted to say. I am pretty sure we have a
social control system already in place so we do not need additional
control.

On the other hand I think it is better to have as many externals in place
as possible, so if someone really feels a need for more control, go ahead
and implement it for  your externals (or .. ask me for permissions, tell
me how to do it etc ...)

I will not have time for this before next tuesday though ...

Greetings

Guenter