On 27/03/2013 14:47, Nick Williams wrote:

> Yea, the Log4j 2 devs told me they would make me a committer in the
> log4j-taglib directory if Subversion would let them do that, but it
> doesn't, so I'll be submitting some pretty huge patches. :-P

Subversion does let you do that. The ASF infra team doesn't as a) it
leads to very hard to maintain authorization file and b) the social
control of "Technically you can commit anywhere but please only commit
in this sub-tree" has been shown to work very well. So well in fact that
some ASF TLPs technically allow commits by any committer.

Mark

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