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Subject: Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision
From: Eike Hein <hein () kde ! org>
Date: 2013-11-11 6:31:15
Message-ID: 1433058.LqxpXfRu6D () ehw1 ! ehn
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> - * Software assets access model
> - * Direct write access to the software assets is granted only to KDE
contributor accounts
> - * Direct write access to the software assets is granted to all KDE
contributor accounts
> + * All KDE contributor accounts get direct (and universal) write access to
the software assets
Wow - I struggle to put into words how much I am opposed
to this change. I just jumped up from the breakfast table
with breakfast uneaten in order to get to a keyboard as
fast as I could.
In my mind - based on experience as contributor, main-
tainer and for a period, sysadmin working on the contri-
butor account system - codifying the two halves that make
up our access model was the single most important accom-
plishment of the Manifesto process.
The access model is the basis for the trust dynamics,
shared ownership, shared responsibility and generally
contributor equality in our community. I believe it's
the key to why KDE, unlike many other FOSS communities,
has managed to become multi-generational, and I'd like
it to continue. Quite a lot on the first page of the
Manifesto flows from those two lines.
I urge everyone who can to go back to the original Mani-
festo discussions, where this was discussed at length.
What's the motivation for this change? Unwieldy lang-
uage? Then let's make it more elegant. But let's not
lose the meaning in the process, because _this stuff be
important_.
Cheers,
Eike
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