Hi Alexis,

Ludovic is the creator sure but he’s only one person and more and more people are contributing. I’m sure Ludovic wants a rule where committers are equal and that decisions be taken collectively. We just need to make the rules clear (hence my email).

XP simply recommend collective code ownership. It does not mention anything about the process for deciding on code refactoring/proposals. When the change is simple and you master the topic you just go ahead. The question arise when you change an important public API (as is my case) or when you don’t know enough about the code you’re modifying.

Thanks

-Vincent

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From: Alexis KARTMANN [mailto:alexis@kartmann.com]
Sent: mercredi 1 juin 2005 22:07
To: xwiki-dev@objectweb.org
Subject: Re: [xwiki-dev] [Process] Decision management

Hi Vincent,

Most of us are new members, that I think the reason why we all wait for Ludovic advices and follow his decision.

If we still want to follow eXtreme programming principles as Ludovic wanted in the beginning of the project, according to collective code ownership principle you should be able to commit your change as soon as they don't break existing tests and that you pair programmed them.

As pair programming is not possible, and because we are too few to wait for 3 yes vote, I think that 1 or 2 vote should be enough.