Bitter Mango

[runab]

Dear Lazyweb,

I have been stuck with a problem for quite sometime now. The new account system for getting Gnome SVN accounts - Mango - behaves a bit oddly at times. The following are the problems that I have seen happening in the past:

#1: There was no option to request an account as a Translator. It got fixed eventually.

#2: A voucher is

Comments

[bluesmoon]

so much for openness. The larger a project gets, the harder it is to balance openness v/s paranoia.

[runab]

More than paranoia.. its a missing link someplace. Atleast for this one. :(

[bluesmoon]

by paranoia, I mean the policies that go in to restrict who can develop and who cannot. small FOSS projects don't have that. If you are capable of contributing, your contribution is welcome. For a large project, you not only need to be capable of contributing, you must also be capable of following standards from patch one, you must be reputed and you need someone to vouch for you.

Some day they may even ask you which countries you've visited prior to your contribution, or where you were when you wrote the code, because it's illegal for women to contribute to this project while sitting at Mount Athos in Greece.