Missed point
September 10, 2007
Damien’s original message to the foundation list was pretty clear : we have a quite new contributor — new meaning he doesn’t have svn write access, and “quite” new meaning he made already a few big and interesting contributions. We want him with us, in gnome. But he has to go through Damien or myself every time he has something to change, because he can’t get an svn account.
The discussion which ensued (still going on…) about svn & git misses the point entirely : we would like to accept him as an equal! Whatever the tool, if he has to go through us to proceed, this isn’t a suitable solution.
As I already mentioned on the foundation list, svn isn’t the real problem : gna! uses it, and a maintainer was able to grant me access in an hour after I provided a public ssh key.
Perhaps I should contact gna!’s people and learn how they do their tricks.