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On becoming $something

One and not uncommon way of granting privileges or positions to somebody else is waiting until it’s obvious it’s time to. As in, for example: “Oh, you don’t have commit access already? Here, let’s fix that.” Or: “Oh, you’re not a release assistant already? Here, have fun.” It’s not useful, however, when there aren’t any people spontaneously jumping into doing some of the required work.

Anyway, the point of this post was to say that I can imagine myself applying this method in some non-free-software areas of my life as well: “Oh, we’re not married already? Here, let’s fix that... tomorrow.”