[Kde-scm-interest] the permissions confusion

[Jeff Mitchell]

Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 04:58:56PM +0100, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
>> On Saturday 12 December 2009 Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
>>> yes, it's great to live in a filtered reality. i suggest you browse
>>> the kde-commits archives and check *how* often somebody complains
>>> about violations of project policy.
>> That's actually an interesting question. It's a bit hard to do that,
>> though, because there are no obvious search terms.
>>
> yes, i've been wondering how to do that, too. :)
> first, one has to determine the "usual operation areas" for all
> committers, and filter out all threads which relate to these. this
> leaves the threads where developers "stray out", which is really what we
> are interested in currently. i expect this to be well under 1% of all
> commits in the first place, which still means a few a day. making a
> survey on that data should be possible (and probably necessary) without
> techical means.
> 
> of course, that's quite an overkill *), so i'll just rely on my gut
> feeling which tells me that it happens too often.

My gut feeling is that we should not rely on gut feelings to make/take
sweeping changes/actions.

"There are WMDs in Iraq -- I have this great gut feeling telling me
there are..."

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