On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 16:14 -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: [snip] > there's a bug open against > Iagno in which a non-native English speaker has re-written the entire > game > from the ground-up adding multi-player; the diff is 4,000 lines. I > really > like where it's going but unfortunately, as someone new to FOSS he > really > didn't understand the "contributing patch-sets" custom that we've come > to > all agree on. Now, if we were using DVCS, I could have this new > version of > Iagno incorporated in a mater of days because all the changes would be > incrementally documented with rationale. Instead, we're looking at > months of > work to break his changes in to peer-reviewed patch-sets that are > documented > and transparent from the perspective of the ChangeLogs. (ie. "blame" > outputting a person's name and the rational for a change on a per-line > basis). [snip]
If he couldn't understand the current way of doing things without asking you, then it's even less likely that he would magically understand that he should do local commits with a DVCS. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list