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