On 01.06.2011, 7:59 Mark wrote:
"The Tiki community is a heavy user of SVN. While many open source communities have a send-a-patch-and-someone-else-will-commit approach, in Tiki, we encourage everyone to commit directly to the source code. Think of it as applying the Wiki Way to software development. Over 220 people have done it so far and it works very well."
I don't know if this is feasible in this community - but wanted to put it out is as a possible direction.
Our commit access approval is quite liberal already, however it's not completely instantaneous - people still need to contribute a few patches before being allowed to work on core, due to the importance of security in MediaWiki as it's being used on a top 5 website. We already have 315 commiters (a few of accounts are dupes though). The problem is not about attracting more contributors, it's about reviewing and deploying their code.