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> From: Eric Evans <eev...@rackspace.com>
> To: community@apache.org
> Sent: Wed, September 15, 2010 1:02:17 PM
> Subject: Re: "Forking is a Feature" reactions?
>
> On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 09:05 -0700, Joe Schaefer wrote:
> > > It is amazing how you (and I mean a big y'all of people negating
> > > distributed SCM along those last 5 years or so) can keep the
> > > illusion that a technical solution (called "centralization" here)
> > > can keep an organization together more than a set of core values
> > > can.
> >
> > It comes from experience with dealing with younger projects in the
> > Incubator that are not so enthralled with svn's workflows, and the
> > social problems that seem to result from those attitudes. Eric is
> > a relatively new committer at Apache and he still talks about his
> > role as being like a "gatekeeper". That's not something he picked
> > up from us.
>
> I'm going to work really hard at not being offended by this.
>
> I do not view myself as a gatekeeper, and more importantly, that is not
> a role I desire (for myself or anyone else). However, I'm not
> self-deluded enough to believe that because I aspire to lofty ideals,
> that I somehow do not possess access to a controlled resource _that
> others do not_.
Then perhaps your portrayal of the typical role for an Apache committer
was "exaggerated for effect". When the day comes that most of our
patch submissions to jira are git-formatted (and hence incompatible with
svn) I will be far more receptive to the idea that svn is a greater barrier
to community participation than svn is.
> If anything, my interest in a decentralized version control system is to
> even the playing field, remove obstacles, and empower contributors.
Sure, but you have to ask yourself why it is that Apache committers tend
to make a *lot* more noise about this than our contributors do. I suspect
the motivation is more "because git is so powerful" than the more idealistic
notion that "git levels the playing field". But I commend your idealism
nonetheless.
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