[kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Monday, November 11, 2013 07:31:15 Eike Hein wrote:
> In my mind - based on experience as contributor, main-
> tainer and for a period, sysadmin working on the contri-
> butor account system - codifying the two halves that make
> up our access model was the single most important accom-
> plishment of the Manifesto process.

two halves? i think that’s an overstatement.

the first statement says:

	ONLY KDE accounts get write access to software assets

the second statement says:

	ALL KDE accounts get write access to software assets

so ONLY *and* ALL. iow, we’re exclusionary.

the new proposed language is:

	ALL KDE accounts get direct, universal write access to the software assets

the difference is that it does not specify “ONLY”, which in this day and age of 
decentralized revision control systems seems sensible. or are you suggesting 
that we should not allow any contributions from the "outside"?

not only is the new language clearer thanks to removing 2 lines and one 
indented list, it makes the manifesto sound a lot less like it was put 
together by pedants: ONLY and ALL ..  really?

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo