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.
> may feel (especially to the non privileged) like a kind
> of nepotism. ("It's not what you contribute, it's who you know").
That is only a problem if we break the rules for certain people. But
this discussion isn't about breaking the rules, but changing them.
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