Re: [PHP-DEV] CVS Account Request From: Zeev Suraski (zeev <email protected>)
Date: 11/15/00

At 01:43 16/11/2000, Joey Smith wrote:

>In the middle of all of this, I wanted to throw my 2 bits in regarding
>"extension specific commit".
>
>While most of the work that I have contributed has been in the Sybase CT
>extension (and not much at that), there have been occasional things I
>have found inside of various other extensions that stood out to me, but
>slipped past the module owner/maintainer for quite a while. In most
>cases, I tried to contact the owner before doing anything, but in some
>cases, these people have a spotty relationship to their modules. Not
>that I don't understand the issues involved...we're all pretty much
>volunteers here. I'm just saying that I, for one, would be against the
>concept of "extension specific commit", bcz it limits my already meager
>abilities.

If you found a bug in one or two extensions, adding you to the ACL's for
these extensions as well wouldn't have been a problem. I actually think
that sometimes outsiders *think* they've found a bug, but because they
don't actually understand what's going on in the code exactly, their fix
may actually make things much worse. I'm not saying that's what happened
in your case (it probably didn't), but it has happened before several
times. After a few useful commits made to extensions other than the one
you applied for, it may make sense to give you access to the entire tree,
because you become an 'all arounder' to a degree. I think there are plenty
of people who only maintain their extensions, and don't touch anything in
other directories.

Zeev 

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Zeev Suraski   <zeev <email protected>>
CTO, Zend Technologies Ltd.  http://www.zend.com/

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