Robert,
> > Well, on what basis do you think -core hand out the commit bit?
>
> Something along the lines of frequency of work on the main trunk? Where
> it is more practical for a developer to just have commit than for them
> to funnel through core, core hands out the bit.
Four criteria AFAIK:
1) how long you've been with the community;
2) how many patches you submit regularly;
3) whether or not your code is good enough that it doesn't need editing;
4) whether you have known legal entanglements that might cause issues for
the project.
Frankly, I don't know that Magnus has come up on Core, one way or another.
I think one of the committers proposes someone when they get tired of
checking in that person's patches.
Also, I can point out that there are a *lot* of people who don't have
commit on the core distro but do have commit on key add-ons, such as JDBC,
DBD::Pg, pgAdmin, or phpPgAdmin, which we need to make Postgres usable.
I personally wouldn't want to draw a line between them.
--
--Josh
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco