[Python-Dev] merit

[Lennart Regebro]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 20:30, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> Lennart Regebro <regebro <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 17:42, R. David Murray <rdmurray <at> bitdance.com>
> wrote:
>> > The first is that open source projects tend to be meritocracies.
>> > An otherwise unknown person being introduced to the community and
>> > immediately given privileges *just* because of the recommendation of
>> > another person
>>
>> Since the recommendation is based on the persons merit, I fail to see
>> the difference.
>
> In an open source community, "merit" relates to that community. We don't give
> Linus Torvalds all rights on the project just because we know (or assume ;-)) he
> is tremendously competent.

Well, that's a blow against the merit-based position then. :)

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