dsource considered harmful

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== Quote from Stewart Gordon (smjg_1998 at yahoo.com)'s article
...
> Speaking of which, has anybody tried asking Brad for commit
> permission on an abandoned project in order to revive it?
>
> Stewart.

I received commit permission on an abandoned project. (And then I
abandoned the project, too--oops! At least I announced the abandonment
on the project wiki, so people didn't have to dig into the source to
see how fresh it was.)

I think Brad's usual policy is to try to contact the original
maintainer and then after a week or so to just grant commit permission
to the new person if he doesn't hear an objection from the old
maintainer. I haven't heard of any problems with malicious project
hijacking, so I think the system works.