On 17/05/11 10:31, Gabriel Roldán wrote:
> Well, I think it could result in an explosion of publicly available
> prototypes, since anyone would be able to work on his own public repo
> without having to request commit access to svn, and able to say hey, if
> you wanna try my module, just pull from this url. And you can as easily
> branch out your repo, pull from it, try it out, and propose it to become
> part of the mainstream if it's good.

Modules outside the central repo are already welcome. There is nothing 
stopping anyone from putting modules elsewhere. For example, Justin has 
a github external in community/python.

> Of course on my initial message "community modules being obsolete" was
> too much an overstatement. I wanted to mean something more like the
> above.
> That said it's not like I really want to push hard on that idea nor get
> into philosophical wars.

I don't think this is a war; this is a much-appreciated opportunity to 
reflect on how we manage our process, why we do what we do now, and what 
we might change to improve community engagement. Your proposal made me 
think, and that has to be good.  :-)

> I consider myself a newbie to git collaboration
> but so far I like it very much and hence the enthusiasm.

I am in the same position as you in regard to git. It has changed my 
software development practices for the better.

-- 
Ben Caradoc-Davies <[email protected]>
Software Engineering Team Leader
CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering
Australian Resources Research Centre

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