From: Jakub Narebski Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 22:27:41 GMT Subject: Re: "Producting Open Source Software" book and distributed SCMs Message-ID: <200705020027.41316.jnareb@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds wrote: > And the nice thing about this is that if some subsystem needs to make > trivial changes to another subsystem, they don't need to ask for > permission. They just do them, AND THEN THEY EXPLAIN THEM! And if they > really were trivial and obvious (and that's almost always the case), they > just get pulled normally. No special dispensation. Actually Karl Fogel wrote in "Producting Open Source Software" that he recommends and uses 'soft' partial commit access; it means that committing is restricted to a part of project for some by a guideline, but is not enforced by the tool (by SCM). P.S. I recommend actually reading the book (at http://producingoss.com) instead of relying on my understanding of it. -- Jakub Narebski ShadeHawk on #git Poland