On Monday, 16 July 2012 at 19:35:47 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
I agree this would be more direct. But I fail to see how Walter
cherry-picking stuff is "basically no additional work", whereas
Adam doing essentially the same is an unenviable "amount of
labor".
The difference is Walter (and other developers) knows his changes
intimately.
The whole point of dlang-stable is to deliver bug-fixes more
quickly. To make this work developers should fix bugs in separate
branch, and do separate commit (IIUC, which I'm not quite sure).
So it's virtually zero effort on their side.
On the other hand, Adam must look at this code really closely.
Now add to the picture other developers whom changes Adam will
need to examine too. All of his D-love energy will be consumed by
maybe 5 developers. And I don't understand what benefits are
(given zero effort for developers).
This doesn't scale. At some point number of the compiler
developers will be 100 times then it is now. And that will
require 100 times more Adams to handle the stream.
Besides, if Walter is at the same time doing things and
deciding their category may work worse than a small team making
the assessment by consensus.
That (few people reviewing same patches) would scale even worse.
B.t.w. how does Linux kernel people handle this ?
