Brion Vibber wrote:
Thomas Gries wrote:
If possible and and supported by you, I would
like to ask, whether
I can apply for developers rights for committing changes for a
limited time.
Tom, to be perfectly honest your patches require extensive review and
correction and you have always had great difficulty communicating
with the rest of the team.
Not wanting to spark a flamewar here or anything, but since you've been
"perfectly honest" in a public forum, maybe I can take this opportunity
to be perfectly honest publicly too. If you hand out such criticism, you
should be able to take it too.
I don't know much about the quality of your software changes, so I won't
comment on that, but I'm afraid you're not exactly the best communicator
either. I have always found it hard to get useful or necessary
information from you, and often you reply to me with a snide or rude remark.
I am quite concerned that, apparently, the MediaWiki developer team has
become more bureaucratic and imperialistic since I last did any active
development. I sure hope it's not going to end up like LiveJournal, with
several volunteer developers offering their patches, but the Elite Club
leaving them to rot on BugZilla, ignoring them completely.
I would definitely not consider giving you CVS checkin
rights at this
time.
Please understand that this reply is *not* meant to imply that I am
disagreeing with or opposing (nor agreeing with or supporting) this
decision.
Timwi