Re: CVS Account Request

I honestly don't recall many of these. I think I remember 1 last year in the strings.c stuff, but it certainly has not been a regular occurrence. -Rasmus On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Andi Gutmans wrote: > At 10:29 PM 11/15/00 -0800, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > > At 02:24 PM 11/15/00 -0800, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > > >Part of the reason the PHP project has been successful is precisely > > > >because the barrier of entry has always been nice and low. This applies > > > >both to the language itself and also to the development of the language. > > > >I can count on one hand the number of times we have had bad commits over > > > >the last 5 years. By empowering people to contribute, you encourage > > > > > > Well you haven't been looking closely then. (not that I want to join the > > > argument but it's MUCH more than one hand). And I'm talking about core > > > stuff and not experimental extensions where it is less important. > > > >Ok, please go find me a cvs commit made by a new cvs user to the core of > >PHP that ended up breaking things. If there are so many of them this > >shouldn't take you long. > > Let's not play baby games because I'm on the way out and don't have time :) > You can trust me or you can not, that there were more than 5 bad commits to > the core by relatively new guys. I think I'd also include the > non-experimental ultra-stable used by 90% extensions as core such as > ext/standard and ext/mysql. > > Andi > --- > Andi Gutmans <andi@zend.com> > http://www.zend.com/ >