[Kde-scm-interest] atomicity, again

Chani chanika at gmail.com
Thu Jun 18 02:08:50 CEST 2009


> No, that doesn't work either. It works for those few projects with very
> active contributors (Plasma, Amarok, kwin, kdeedu, kdegames, Dolphin). For

even for those projects, we don't necessarily want to restrict pushes. after a 
few patches to plasma we tell people to get their own svn account; nobody 
wants to sit around approving obvious fixes. plasma makes use of reviewboard, 
but also expects people to learn when to skip it. :)

> Just let everyone have push rights. If you don't feel qualified to make a
> change on your own, ask for help, send a patch. If you do make something
> wrong, you'll get yelled at.

+1
it's worked so far, and social controls (like yelling at (or nicely talking 
to) people who do something wrong) are more flexible than technical controls.

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