[Opensim-dev] The notion of "core"

[Teravus Ovares]

This does not validate your argument.   Your argument was that the
advent of the distributed source control system made the 'commit right
vote' obsolite, however, in the project that spawned said distributed
source control system, there's a benevolent dictatorship.

My argument was that the source control system doesn't dictate the
type of community an open source project has.  If it did, then the
Linux kernel wouldn't be a benevolent dictatorship.

Regards

Teravus

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 3:41 AM, Edward Middleton <emiddleton at bebear.net> wrote:
>>Edward Middleton wrote:
>>> Frisby, Adam wrote:
>>>
>>>> ---
>>>> From the excellent F/OSS guidebook: http://producingoss.com/en/consensus-democracy.html#electorate
>>> I think the quote is a bit out of context, the book was released in 2005
>>> when most people were using centralized version control systems CVCS
>>> like subversion.  I can understand making a big deal about commit access
>>> (or rights if you want to put it that way) when you are working with a
>>> CVCS because it is pretty constraining to work it,  but aren't you
>>> moving/have moved to a DVCS[1] (i.e.  git) where having commit access to
>>> the central repository is something more akin to being the release manager.
>
>> [snip: references to Linus and Benovolent Dictator Governance Model]
>>
>> In conclusion, the quote was not out of context.   This type of
>> community is alive and well /currently/ in the Linux kernel. ...
>>
>
> The quote was in relation to the Consensus-based Democracy (the opensim
> political structure?) which in most projects has changed significantly
> with the advent of DVCS.  Maybe this might be more helpful[1].
>
> Edward
>
> 1. http://drnicwilliams.com/2008/02/03/using-git-within-a-team/
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