[Ilugc] 2nd Indian SVN Full-Committer

[Kapil Hari Paranjape]

Hello,

On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> S.Ramaswamy wrote:
>> Getting your code into an official release is not just a matter of
>> cloning a repository and then committing changes locally with a
>> distributed version control system.

> Sure, but "official kernel" is just a social norm than technical barrier.

Perhaps people are mis-understanding each other here.

Getting commit-access to a non-D VCS is rather like getting the status
of Debian Maintainer. The latter can be seen as "commit-access" to a
portion of the Debian repository.

So this _is_ a social norm being achieved by Senthil:

 Someone or some group whom we respect has examined a candidate
 and has declared the candidate "passed".

In such a case, IMHO the candidate deserves our plaudits.

The merit of implementing this social norm using a technical
barrier is of course debatable.

Regards,

Kapil.
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