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Isn't this the model that Linus Torvalds (effectively) uses with Linux? He ultimately is the maintainer, but delegates responsibilities to trusted individuals
by sanj 13y ago
Isn't this the model that Linus Torvalds (effectively) uses with Linux? He ultimately is the maintainer, but delegates responsibilities to trusted individuals for large chunks of the codebase.
And they gain that responsibility based on prior work.
- ninkendo 13y agoWell, Linus still ultimately pulls from his lieutenants' repos though. Nobody has direct push access to Linus's repository but Linus (if I recall, at least.) That's functionally equivalent to github's pull request system. What's better about Linux is the fact that Linus cares enough to keep things up to date and have a functioning release process with freezes, etc. All of that can be done in github, it just requires maintainers to put in the effort.