"the rpm question" - summary

[Lamar Owen]

On Saturday 08 November 2003 11:50 pm, Chuck Wolber wrote:
> > 4.) There needs to be some governance.  I propose a steering committee
> > based on merit: if you put up the bandwidth, you get a say in the
> > governance, etc.

> How about rather than resources put forth (which anyone with $$$ can do),
> we base merit on technical contributions *ONLY*? My concern is that a spot
> can be purchased rather than earned.

Amount of time spent on the project can also be bought.  Providing servers, 
bandwidth, and other infrastructure is essential for those times that, say, 
OpenSSH has a root compromise.  On the PostgreSQL project, Marc Fournier 
doesn't provide much in the way of developing code; but he provides the 
servers and the pipes.  Administering such is just as important a 
contribution as writing code would be; thus he got a spot (one of the first 
four).  But each project is different, and must find its own way.
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