On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Stephan Beal <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Richard Hipp <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'll need a copyright >> release<http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/doc/trunk/www/copyright-release.html>from >> that user in either case. And once I get the copyright release, then >> he or she can have direct commit access. >> > > But of course i didn't think about that :/. > > Skipping the licensing question for a moment - does fossil support such a > workflow at all, or does making it work this way go outside of its comfort > zone? > Fossil does not currently support a hierarchical development model very well. It wants everybody to be a peer. It wants all developers to see everything all the time. Fossil strives to avoid a "peeking order" in which some developers are hidden from view behind "lieutenants". This is a more egalitarian model, but also one that does not scale as well. To better support a hierarchy, Fossil would need the ability to sync individual branches in addition to its current behavior of always syncing everything on every sync request. (Recall that I asked for volunteers to implement such a thing a while back.) But adding that feature quickly gets complicated when you then try to figure out how to deal with auto-sync. You could, I suppose, put your local Fossil into a mode where it only syncs the branch you are currently working on or switching to. But what about Wiki and Tickets and Events? Do they get synced or not? Once you leave the comfort of Fossils original model of "everybody sees all the code all the time" then various operational questions of this kind start to come up. > > -- > ----- stephan beal > http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > > -- D. Richard Hipp [email protected]
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