On Jun 12, 2004, at 2:51 AM, Glen Mazza wrote:
I think it should be noted, for those unaware, that the ASF Chairman is a team member on the Subversion project. (http://www.lyra.org/greg/)
Historically within the ASF people have separated their private life, role-at-work and other hobby-horses and their hat's quite well. And I strongly believe that Greg is doing so carefully as well.
Even if we're not being forced into SVN, this is something the Apache teams should be informed of.
I personally hope that things are kept separate. A lot of us have alter ego's working on other open source projects, on standards bodies and on proprietary code - and we really need to ensure that sound engineering judgement is not compromised by this - instead it should be something which strengthens.
But I can see that it may seem that there is a certain level of evangelizing akin to the 'take-it-all' that seen in the gnu/libtool/configure or in the qmail/djb-dns in that part of the world. Sofar however I completely trust the Infrastructure team to help the PMCs build the right infrastructure for the developers and for ASF (rather than force the ASF to use Subversion for market-share reasons) - and I've only seen the most professional of behaviours.
DO bear in mind that the ideas and concepts going into subversion derive directly from the ASF: it tries to address, fix or mitigate every fault and issue we have had over the past 5+ years in the ASF. So it is hard not to see this as 'nearly ideal' from a functional and code mntg perspective.
Ultimately however it is not the board, chariman or ASF who decides what each projects use - that is something for each PMC and
each committer/developer community themselves to determine. And the role of the ASF itself is limited to long term code custodianship which is far removed from the operational choice of a code mngt platform once the legal auditability and reconstruction needs are met.
Dw
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