Re: [Python-Dev] merit

2010-04-26 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Lennart Regebro writes: > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 20:30, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > 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, tha

Re: [Python-Dev] merit

2010-04-26 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 20:30, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Lennart Regebro gmail.com> writes: >> >> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 17:42, R. David Murray bitdance.com> > wrote: >> > The first is that open source projects tend to be meritocracies. >> > An otherwise unknown person being introduced to the com

[Python-Dev] merit

2010-04-26 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Lennart Regebro gmail.com> writes: > > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 17:42, R. David Murray 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 o