On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:26:37 +0000, Eric Kow wrote: > More comments from me to follow.
I think we should separate the UI discussion from the should we even do
this discussion.
To me, it looks like the UI discussion is pretty much settled on darcs
fetch (Dan, Eric, Florent). There is an alternative of darcs pull -o
(Ian) which I'll give a couple more days to here a
counter-counterargument about.
THAT SAID... Do we even want this feature in the first place?
Can we do the Grumpy Old Man run-down? We still need somebody to act as GoM
for this feature, somebody who can call up enough stubbornness to make sure we
are sincere about giving these questions due consideration:
1. What problem does the proposed feature solve?
2. What are the user stories?
3. Does this change any pre-existing workflows? Does this introduce any
incompatibilities?
4. Does this interfere with the conceptual integrity of Darcs? Is the UI
really Darcs-ish?
5. What are the possible unintended interactions with other pre-existing
features?
6. What are the alternative approaches to solving the same problem? Why do we
prefer this one?
7. Who are the stakeholders? Who is going to benefit/be affected by this
feature: end-users, repo farms like patch-tag, darcs developers?
The idea is that the new feature doesn't go in till the Grumpy Old Man is
placated. Anybody want to volunteer?
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