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