Hi Ryan, On 05/08/07, Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 8/5/07, Andrew McCall <andrew.mccall@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I think the questions that that needs asking RIGHT NOW isn't if things > > like this should be allowed or not allowed. It should be why is the > > community so polarized on their opinions. Get that sorted and you > > won't need an admin team. > > The community is so polarized on this issue for one basic reason: > developers don't want their partially-finished work shown to the > public, whereas non-developers don't have this concern. For what it is > worth, I totally understand the view of the developers (I am one after > all, but my "sphere of influence" in Haiku isn't quite as big as Axel, > Ingo, Stephan, etc.) I totally understand, and I have to admit, I hadn't thought of it from that point of view before. Now that you put it to me in that way, I have a slightly different feeling on the subject (and I remember some of the code I had on my hard disk at one point and shudder!) Now, before I say this, I am totally against all the developers keeping their own branch until they are ready to commit a finished master-piece. BUT another point of view could be taken that the developers handed over their work to an open source project. -- Thanks, Andrew McCall andrew.mccall@xxxxxxxxx