[phogster]

>The culture around your product is probably very different from the kernel devs' culture so it makes sense for you to have a different model.

I think he meant he wants the ability to enforce a certain behavior within his own group.

[fr0sty]

The amount of control you can exercise with hooks as well as the features available in repository management systems like gitolite should be more than adequate to enforce whatever policy you may dream up.