[Python-Dev] merit (original) (raw)

Lennart Regebro regebro at gmail.com
Mon Apr 26 20:48:35 CEST 2010

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 20:30, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

Lennart Regebro <regebro gmail.com> writes:

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 17:42, R. David Murray <rdmurray bitdance.com> wrote: > The first is that open source projects tend to be meritocracies. > An otherwise unknown person being introduced to the community and > immediately given privileges just because of the recommendation of > another person Since the recommendation is based on the persons merit, I fail to see the difference. In an open source community, "merit" relates to that community. We don't give Linus Torvalds all rights on the project just because we know (or assume ;-)) he is tremendously competent.

Well, that's a blow against the merit-based position then. :)

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