R. David Murray writes:
... So, the many small contributions that make a bazaar software project tend rapidly toward high quality, which is one of the things I got the impression you are trying to achieve by opening up the CVS repository, may not materialize under this Agreement. We'll have just about the same situation we have now, except that there will be more committers and therefore, one hopes, an increase in the pace of (controlled) change. An improvement, yes, but can we do even better? I think (and indeed I really hope) that your anxiety is not founded.
The Zope Contribution Initiative took Python as model. There, you have beside contributors a bug tracking system where problems can be reported and patches posted to. I do not know the details of Python development process, especially the legal agreements behind it. But somehow, it seems to work... Dieter