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Voting on patches is a terrible idea. Perl Monks is not run by consensus. It's run by people who've proven themselves knowledgeable, mature, and trustworthy over the span of years.

I don't know of a single open source project that votes on patches in the terms I think you're describing — I think it'd be a fiasco. You're welcome to prove me wrong, though.

The Mozilla project allows users to vote on specific bugs in the bug tracking database. This gives developers feedback about which bugs to fix first and which features they should add. This is different from voting on the actual patches - the users don't vote for those, but they are free to comment on them if they want. This is a nice way to keep the users feeling like they matter to the project, without giving them the ability to make messes that the developers have to clean up.

Besides that, what are you going to do if you know that the code for the Personal Nodelet is just . . .

I'll give you a counter example - why does anybody need to know that /bin/ls is "just" calling readdir() and printing to stdout? On the other hand, why does it need to be a secret? All other things being equal, I would rather have code be open. 98% of the time, I don't even look at the code, but when I do dig into it, I get to have that "oh cool, this is how it works" feeling that drives hackers to take things apart.

It isn't harmful to open up the code to the site so that people can look - unless it's insecure code, and then it should be fixed.


In reply to Re: Re: Run your own perlmonks! by bunnyman
in thread Run your own perlmonks! by theorbtwo

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