All committers are equal. Period.

[Leo Simons <le...@apache.org>]

Niclas Hedhman wrote:
> Sorry, but you manage to make me pretty upset...

I'm sure that was not his intention.

take a deep breath or two, a beer, and take the rest of the day off, 
dude (both of you, probably :-D).

> You want me to count there?

no.

> How do you want to rate "contribution" ? Please put a number on it !

please don't!

It is not possible. It is hurtful to a community. It doesn't help anyone 
or anything in any way at all.

Here's a few examples you can't put a number on:

* Greg Stein has never committed a single thing inside avalon's CVS. But 
it is safe to say that the avalon that is today would not exist without 
his efforts.

* Nicola Ken has never contributed much code to avalon during his period 
here. But it is safe to say that the avalon that is today would not 
exist without his efforts.

* I likely outnumbered commits from everyone else for the first half of 
2003, because I wiped all java sources clean in CVS during a license 
header update and had to fix it all.

Yes, we have a meritocracy. But we don't do layering. There's no "all 
committers are equal, but some are more equal than others". All 
committers are equal, and that's it. Someone who has deserved the 
"committer" status gets an *equal* say on *everything*.

This is /vital/ guys. You are a committer, therefore your opinion 
counts. The same goes for the opinion of all other committers. In fact, 
all opinions from sensible people count more than does their "merit" (in 
whatever way you would want to define that), since much more important 
than merit is consensus and collaboration.

End of story.

-- 
cheers,

- Leo Simons

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RE: All committers are equal. Period.

["Noel J. Bergman" <no...@devtech.com>]

+1

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RE: All committers are equal. Period.

[Carsten Ziegeler <cz...@s-und-n.de>]

 +1 

Carsten


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