Re: [9front] 9front Committers (Was Re: [9fans] Software philosophy)

[ori@eigenstate.org]

Quoth Kurt H Maier <khm@sciops.net>:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 11:53:52AM -0700, unobe@cpan.org wrote:
> > Quoth Keith Gibbs <k@pixelheresy.com>:
> > > In fact, 9front development is highly decentralized in authority and everyone seems to spot, review, critique, and gatekeep each other, rather than any person having a single final say.
> > 
> > So commit bits are handed out freely to anyone who asks?
> > 
> > Some background: I used to be involved in Perl 6 development (Raku)
> > and Autrijius did just that--anyone who wanted a commit bit got one.
> > Highly decentralized, but by necessity there was some centralization
> > in terms of where the repo was hosted.
> > 
> > P.S. Posting to 9front in case this is too off-topic for 9fans.
> > 
> 
> There was never a formal process for getting commit access to
> code.9front.org.  Generally someone would ask for it in the irc channel,
> and if nobody objected after a little while I'd just add them.  Ori's
> currently hosting the git repo, so I'll let him chime in on that if he
> wants.
> 
> khm
> 

Nothing's changed, beyond the people you ask. I run
the file server, sl runs the auth server, so we both
need to create accounts with a matching username.

I'd prefer to see patches before handing out commit
access, but so far everyone that's asked has gotten
a commit bit.