On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Jeff Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm starting this thread to encourage healthy discussion. I forbid holy > wars and flaming.
*snort* Let me know how that goes. > Has making a move to a distributed model already been discussed for > Django? The closest I've seen is Jacob announcing his git repo, and > that's about it. I haven't seen any serious discussion among core devs > about the idea. Three thoughts: 1. The beauty of distributed VCS is that you don't need anybody's permission to confusinging use it. I, for example, have been happily using git for the past handful of months; I know Gary uses Bazaar, and I wouldn't be surprised to find that one of the other core devs uses something really exotic like Darcs. 2. SVN, however, is a sort of lowest common denominator of open source development; we can expect our users and developers to know and understand it. We can't expect the same about newer and more complicated tools -- I love the hell out of git, for example, but it's about as simple to use as a 747. I'd rather spend my time helping contributors figure out Django than helping them figure out DVCS. 3. Django's not switching any time in the foreseeable future. The core devs are in violent agreement on this point. That said, we're going to be encouraging those who want to start distributed branches to do so -- I've been quite happy with the handful of developers whose git branches I'm tracking. Jacob --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
