"Actually I think it is exactly the other way around" +1 Jochen, this is also my experience.
Dane On Mar 28, 2013, at 7:49 AM, Jochen Topf wrote: > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 07:36:56AM -0700, Kai Krueger wrote: >>> As there is no official maintainer I can only do two things keep it for me >>> or just commit it. This is not a big risk in this case, but I would rather >>> like to ask for an OK first, but whoom should I ask? >> >> If it isn't a big risk patch, then just commit it. >> >> This is the reason I have always been somewhat opposed to moving from svn to >> git. >> >> In the osm SVN repository pretty much everyone had commit rights. Therefore, >> if no one stepped up to be the "official maintainer", one could just commit >> ones patches directly and everyone using the software could benefit from it. >> >> In git, despite being distributed you can't really do that (unless everyone >> has push rights). Although everyone can create a new git repository and >> commit their patches to it and technically there is no upstream or official >> repository anymore, socially that doesn't work. It just becomes even more >> confusing to the user of a software if there are tens of different >> repositories they could potentially pull from, each with a different set of >> patches. From a usability point of view, there needs to be a single official >> repository. > > Actually I think it is exactly the other way around. Because anybody can > commit, nobody feels responsible. If you have your own git branch, at least > you can feel responsible for it. Ideally there is one person or a group of > people who take ownership of a project. If they don't do their job properly, > others can jump in and take over. git allows this to happen relatively easily. > Today if somebody posts a bug on Tirex somewhere, it is easy for me to ignore. > It would not be so easy if this happens in "my repository". > > Yes, the "git system" has the drawback that it can be difficult to figure > out where the "right" repository is. But I think that price is worth paying > not to have a system with distributed ownership where nobody feels > responsible. > > Jochen > -- > Jochen Topf [email protected] http://www.remote.org/jochen/ +49-721-388298 > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
