I'm sorry if that was how that came across, but all I meant was that if you were no longer going to be able (due to a lack of time) to use those permissions there was no reason for you to have them. It was all about keeping things tidy, and nothing about mistrust. And as leper writes above, there's no war/treating you differently from our side, so if you feel that way it's certainly not intended. What we do want to make clear though is that we will not treat you differently from how we treat everybody else, neither negatively nor positively. The programmers try and review patches as soon as they have time, regardless of who submitted them. We do want to try our best to make sure the code is as good as possible though, and that means that even the programmers who have joined the team sometimes do things separately (whether as a patch or as a GIT branch or however they choose) to make sure bigger changes can be tested/reviewed before being included in the main SVN. Now you may agree with that in theory, but with posts such as the ones in this thread it's hard for us to get that impression of you. In other words, so far your words and your actions seems to speak of an attitude of getting things done and getting them done quickly. And there's certainly good things about that, but when it comes to a project of this size it's practically impossible for one person to fully grasp all the consequences of changing some pieces of code or other. Which is why we want to be a bit more careful than that. True, it might be slower at times, but hopefully it means both higher quality code and quicker development in the long run (if less time has to be spent fixing things later). If you want to do things in a different way and commit things as soon as possible that's something you're free to do in a fork, but please understand that it's not how we want to do things for the main repository.