Please read http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/7996 ("Optimizing for fun"). It gives a few factors that were helpfull in making other open source projects successfull. One of those factors is "Cast committer rights far and wide".
I'm not against formalizing the informal rules that we have now (Casper listed them), but as far as I'm concerned what we have is not broken and does not need to be fixed.
Gé van Geldorp.