Re: Guix wiki

[André A . Gomes]

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> writes:

> Hi Simon, all,
>
> I'll give your long and thoughtful reply the attention it deserves
> when I have time, but there's another misleading tangent that has 
> bothered me (elsewhere) in this discussion:
>
>>  - cathedral, as it is today
>
> This is revisionist.  The Bazaar model perfectly describes Guix, where
> everyone is free to submit changes and have them critiqued and revised
> in public.  Even maintainers are expected to submit. Changes that meet
> $criteria are merged into a source tree immediately available to
> everyone.
>
> Guix has never used the Cathedral model, where patch submission and
> discussion happen behind closed doors, to be released unto the public
> as a revelation from on high.
>
> ‘People push nontrivial changes without review’ was never a condition
> of the Bazaar model or what made it successful.  The book was based on
> LKML, for heaven's sake!  :-)
>
> We can find a cute new name for what's being proposed in this thread
> (the Wailing Wall model?), but simply declaring ‘the Bazaar is called
> Cathedral now, change my mind’ can't work.

Tobias, I couldn't agree more!!!


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André A. Gomes
"Free Thought, Free World"