[Python-Dev] merit

[Antoine Pitrou]

Lennart Regebro <regebro <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 17:42, R. David Murray <rdmurray <at> 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 of the recommendation of
> > another person
> 
> Since the recommendation is based on the persons merit, I fail to see
> the difference.

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.

Regards

Antoine.