Good point, very odd way to prove / address it, using what is mostly a low level detail. I believe in the "quality happens only when someone is responsible for

Good point, very odd way to prove / address it, using what is mostly a low level detail. I believe in the "quality happens only when someone is responsible for it" idea, however it's not really a matter of automake/autoconf, or at least this is an old thing to look at, and a detail. A more modern result of the idea that central authority is not needed in software projects is the bloatware created by the idea that software can be created like this >>> "Let's merge this Pull Request, tests passes". There are three flaws in this apparently non-brainer action: 1) "Let's merge": adding features without stress in taking software self-contained and small. 2) "This Pull Request": the idea that there is no need for a central design. 3) "If test passes": the idea that you can really provide quality code just with tests and without manual code quality inspection and writing code in a clean and defensive way to start with. So I believe in the postulate but the proof is rather strange in this post.