Safe as Milk

Getting Subversion access

July 26, 2007 3:54 pm Dave Neary General

I remember the day that Michael Natterer (mitch) sent me a mail saying something to the effect of “I’m spending too much time committing your good patches, it’s time you got your own CVS access”. I was happy on so many levels. Happy because it meant that my work was being appreciated, that I was considered part of the team, and most of all because it showed that I was trusted.

That trust was tempered by the fact that the GIMP developers have a highly developed sense of code review – every commit which goes into the GIMP repository gets a good once-over from Sven, mitch and others, which keeps everyone honest.

But that day was still a key moment in my life as a free software developer. It is the first day I really truly felt like I was a part of the family.

Today, I just got my Subversion access for the OpenWengo svn repository. When I joined the company I said that I didn’t want the access because I was an employee, I wanted it because I’d earned it.

It took a while, partly because I haven’t been sending in many patches, partly because I had made a proposal some time ago for managing new committers which got delayed for a while, and so it was only revived a couple of weeks ago.

So today, along with another new committer Ludovico Cavedon, I finally feel like I’ve properly joined the OpenWengo family. Happiness 🙂