On 01/28/2007 04:43 PM, Martin Spott wrote: > [last week] I applied the patch which implemented your 'semi-transponder' > right the next day. Anything wrong with this ?
Definitely not wrong! Thanks! Indeed this week's patches are dependent on last week's patches. Only a few lines of last week's patches needed to be backed out to make way for this week's work. > Well, you see: Communication between developers is a nice thing and we > practice this quite often, cross-checking isn't that bad either ;-) Spoken like a true pilot. ============================================= Those who can read and write the project CVS repository presumably find CVS very convenient. Meanwhile it would be wise to occasionally think about how things look to other contributors, i.e. those who cannot directly write to the repository. Such contributors find CVS vastly less convenient. It is a big hassle to manage patches, even when there are only one or two people working on something. That's because when a patch has been submitted, there is no way to know when or even if it will be committed to the project CVS repository. Collaborators must trade patches hand-to-hand, without going through CVS. Later, if/when the patch is committed, CVS gets upset if it sees patches that have already been applied. Just to generate accurate patches, contributors need to keep around two copies of each affected file: "our" latest version, and the latest "cvs" version. There are, of course, ways of doing this, but it's a whole lot more error-prone than just saying "cvs update ; cvs diff -u ...." Bottom line: Two points: -- Flightgear is not the first project to face this situation. It would be nice to have some decent tools to support a project-within-project development model. -- In the meantime, don't be surprised if there are occasional misunderstandings about what is covered by this-or-that patch. Patient communication will be required. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
