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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
