Re: [PHP-DEV] CVS Account Request From: Derick Rethans (d.rethans <email protected>)
Date: 11/15/00

Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:

> Part of the reason the PHP project has been successful is precisely
> because the barrier of entry has always been nice and low. This applies
> both to the language itself and also to the development of the language.
> I can count on one hand the number of times we have had bad commits over
> the last 5 years. By empowering people to contribute, you encourage
> contributions. I would rather have a badly written extension than no
> extension. Badly written extensions spur other people to pitch in and
> improve it and the feedback provided to the author helps the author
> improve.

This is exactly how Open Source software works. If the barrier is high to
contribute to the PHP project, a lot of people wont even think of contributing
and would see the PHP project as some group of "dictators", much like the Mozilla
project IMHO. I think that some kind of restriction must be applied to let
users/developers commit code to the cvs, the QA people don't need access to the
source repository, but in my opinion it would be good for this language if the
barrier to commit something is as low as it is now. At the moment the language
gets better and better, and it would be a pity if this progress is stopped by
some paranoid methods to control access to the CVS.

>
>
> As far as a terrorist cvs committer goes. I think you are being overly
> paranoid. And I would challenge the statement that an unknown can sneak a
> harmful commit into PHP that is not caught by anybody. I read all commit
> messages. And I bet I am not the only one. Sure, I skip over some commit
> messages from known people in areas I know little about. But someone I
> don't recognize comitting any sort of code automatically triggers a full
> review for me.

Derick 

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