[Vm-dev] a Cog branch

[stephane ducasse]

On Jun 26, 2010, at 4:17 AM, Igor Stasenko wrote:

> 
> On 26 June 2010 01:18, stephane ducasse <stephane.ducasse at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> But andreas if people cannot easily post their contributions then they will leave, or they will fork anyway.
>> This is really simple to clone a svn repository.
>> We were planning to have a github dedicated to vm contributions so that people investing time to get a better
>> make for windows for example can contribute and like that we have no stress that you get busy or not.
> 
> Oh you also planned to use it? Cool.
yes we decided that at the sprint at brussels after talking with geoffroy.

> I used github for a single project, and frankly i can't say that i
> learnt to use it well.

We have experts around so I have no stress for that.


> But from what i have seen, it really helps with organizing a workflow,
> where you have multiple
> contributors, each doing experiments in own direction, and then sync
> the results into a central
> repository.
> 
> It is very easy to track things and don't get lost in the information ocean.
> http://github.com/couchapp/couchapp/network
> 
> 
>> The VM maintainer can decide if they want it or not. They can cherry pick the changes.
>> But we can also access it and use it and contribute to it.
>> This is like the immutability it even if it is not introduced then having an entry point to find the
>> code is an advantage.
>> 
>> As igor said git is a tool and you can build a process around it.
>> 
>> Stef
>> 
>>> On 6/25/2010 1:59 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>>> I really cannot understand your objection.
>>> 
>>> Yes, I'm obviously doing a bad job formulating my concern :-)
>>> 
>>> The concern isn't about the utilization of a DVCS. The concern is about people saying "hurray, now we can finally fork". If we're in a situation that people feel that way, then we're doing something wrong and it has nothing to do with the use of a DVCS.
>>> 
>>> So everyone here explaining to me how great it is to fork is doing nothing but deepening my concern that we have a real problem and that the only outcome of a switch to a DVCS is that we'll end up in a multitude of incompatible forks. Which is what I'm trying to avoid.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>>  - Andreas
>> 
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> -- 
> Best regards,
> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.