Mirian Crzig Lennox <lennox@alcita.com> writes:
> The number of people who have commit privilege is really irrelevant to
> whether it's a cathedral or bazaar style of development.  What's
> relevant is the process by which new code is accepted into the tree.
> 
> As an example: consider SMP.  We have a project blessed by core to
> implement SMP in NetBSD.  As a result, if you or I try to implement
> SMP in NetBSD, none of our work is likely to be accepted by core.

Neither of those is actually true. To my knowledge, the SMP project
isn't "official", and if you did solid work and it arrived ahead of
anyone else's work, it probably *would* be accepted for incorporation
into the tree.

Generally, the only rule is that the work has to be very
solid. NetBSD's one bit of cathedralness comes from the fact that we
tend to be pretty perfectionistic about the code that goes in. When we 
don't do that, we tend to end up regretting it. The result has been
that we're usually slightly behind other projects in terms of cutting
edge features, but way ahead in terms of ease of porting, reliability, 
readability of the code base, etc...

Perry