A Great Learning Curve

When I got access to SVN and become a new member of the ever growing OpenMRS community, I realized that I have full Read/Write access to whole of the SVN and asked my mentors following thing :

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1. I want my write access to be "LIMITED" only to http://svn.openmrs.org/openmrs-modules/feedback/ . How this can be done ?

Then Burke Mamlin (My Co-Mentor) replied me with one of the best statement that I have heard so far :

"We purposefully don't try to manage a social problem (i.e., svn code of conduct) through a technical solution."

And then I realized the actual meaning of the fact that great power come with even greater responsibilities.Although the snip from the Burke's  mail is following :

Just limit your commits to that code.  If you check out that folder it will be very difficult – if not impossible – for you to accidentally write to other parts of the repository.  That said, if a couple months go by and you notice an obvious misspelling or typographical error in the code, you won't have to ask for privileges to change it.

We purposefully don't try to manage a social problem (i.e., svn code of conduct) through a technical solution.  You know what you should be doing & what you shouldn't be doing and we trust you.  If you make a mistake, the repository keep track of each change so it's very easy to fix.  If someone abuses their access to the repository, then that's easy to fix too. 🙂