Does it not come down to the usual "cathedral vs. bazar" opposition? SQLite, for which Fossil was originally built, lists 3 persons on its developers page and l

Does it not come down to the usual "cathedral vs. bazar" opposition? SQLite, for which Fossil was originally built, lists 3 persons on its developers page and looks pretty much like the definition of a "cathedral", whereas git was built by Linus Torvalds for Linux, which is the prototypical bazar project. It makes sense when you have a small team of people that know the project very well to record everything, and they can easily maintain stringent standards, like never committing anything that breaks the tests. Whereas for a big project that involve thousands of people mailing patches around, some of them first time contributors, you'd rather make sure that what ends up in the immutable log has is clean enough.