On 2/2/07, Sean O'Rourke sorourke@cs.ucsd.edu wrote:
Juho Snellman jsnell@iki.fi writes:
I find the "community's version" to be a rather curious concept.
Me too.
Those who contribute more (i.e. not me) have more say in how the project evolves, but I don't claim some sort of ownership over the particular lines I've contributed, and I don't think that's the way things work in other projects, either.
Let's look at contribution then. The tables below just show number of commits to slime.el and swank.lisp. They don't reflect size or quality. If they did then the case for Helmut's moral ownership would be even stronger.
slime.el:
287 heller 205 lgorrie 76 mbaringer 64 mkoeppe 31 alendvai 24 aruttenberg 20 lukeg 11 dbarlow 8 pseibel 8 ellerh 5 jsnellman 5 eweitz 5 crhodes 4 nsiivola 4 bdowning 1 wjenkner 1 vsedach 1 jbielman 1 jamesjb 1 asimon
swank.lisp:
192 heller 91 lgorrie 42 mbaringer 41 mkoeppe 25 alendvai 16 lukeg 9 ellerh 9 dbarlow 7 aruttenberg 6 eweitz 5 pseibel 4 dcrosher 4 crhodes 2 vsedach 2 nsiivola 2 jsnellman 2 bdowning 2 asimon 1 wjenkner 1 jbielman
If those tables show anything it's that about four people have any business commenting on the direction of the project. IMHO, everyone else should seriously tone down their comments.
If anyone has a moral ownership of Slime, it's Helmut, who has contributed by far the most to it.
Very true.
Michael