> | > | A "single point of control", however, is vitally important. > | > | You're basically "putting your name" on the dotted line > | > | claiming that you "control" the repository. If you allow > | > | anyone to make any change they want you'll quickly find that > | > | you have no idea what the changes mean and how they impact > | > | the stability of "silver". > | > > | > That does not make much sense. People should be allowed to make > | > changes to silver when their patches are approved. That is very > | > different from people making random changes willy-nilly as you seem to > | > imply. > | > | ..."when their patches are approved"... > | > | if the idea is tested in a branch > > You're not going to require people to create a branch for *every > single* patch, right?
idea == patch? surely you jest. you clearly don't think that's a reasonable sentence or you would not have organized build-improvements the way you did. > [...] > > | one person has total control over the whole source tree in their branch, > | such as you have with build-improvements. why isn't it reasonable to > | have one person coordinating silver? > > For that matter, I feel the control of branches should be shared > responsabilities when and where that appropriate. In the case of the > trunk/silver I feel even more so that it should not depend on a single > point of failure. please lose the notion of "single point of failure" as it is meaningless. the axiom sources exist in a dozen places and are freely writeable by two dozen people. a sudden heart attack on my part would have little if any effect on axiom development. > | there are a lot of "other tasks" besides checking in changes > | that need to be performed in order to keep a silver version. > | who would have the responsibility to do this? > > Please be more specific, so that I can offer meaningful answer. well, answering related email would be one :-) t _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
