I'd like to hear people's experiences with SVK; my impression of it (based
on its CVS support) was that it seemed pretty flaky.  If that is indeed
the case I wouldn't want to inflict it on the students...

(To be honest, I'm leaning towards an SVN branch for our student projects
in SpamAssassin.)

--j.

Andrus Adamchik writes:
> Heh, that's actually a more general problem with team development,  
> both open source and commercial. I've seen people who would not  
> commit their local work to CVS for weeks or months to postpone  
> dealing with integration issues :-)
> 
> So yes, communicating constant integration paradigm is important. And  
> providing the right tools is what makes it practical.
> 
> Andrus
> 
> On May 24, 2006, at 2:21 PM, Garrett Rooney wrote:
> 
> > On 5/24/06, Andrus Adamchik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> It looks like recommending SVK per Kevin's SVK suggestion is a good
> >> idea - there won't be a need for the external repo, and it will
> >> remove the reviewing bottleneck from the patch process.
> >
> > Just be sure that you don't end up with the student doing all their
> > work locally and not showing it to anyone until it's done.  That
> > totally defeats the point of open development, peer review, etc.
> >
> > -garrett
> >

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