From my low-cred "interested user who hasn't contributed a single line of code" vantage, I think we need some procedural consensus:
1. Some indication from Pieter as to how he thinks this should go. He posted some thoughts back in March, though recent changes may address many of his concerns with pull request opacity. (See https://github.com/blog/712-pull-requests-2-0) 2. An agreed "master" branch from which the mainline builds are created. This could be Pieter's, or someone else's if he's willing to pass the baton on wrangling development. 3. An agreement on who that wrangler should be. Ideally this should be someone who can work with XCode projects and is familiar enough with the source base that they can read commits, even if they are not one of the active contributors. 4. Some more regular merges and test versions (and possibly a development-specific Sparkle feed for people who want to track those). I do think it's a really good sign that so many people are playing with this code -- especially given that the more public face of the project is one of little progress. -faisal On Dec 22, 2010, at 10:50 AM, Michael Dippery wrote: > On Dec 22, 2010, at 4:18 AM, jdpglobal wrote: > >> I think it would be a smart move to have a team of core - contributors >> working on a single fork. >> The team would set some targets to shoot for / goals and this would >> help reduce duplicate efforts. Don't like the goals or targets? Then >> fork it. This would force daily pulls / pushes to reduce merge >> conflicts but could accelerate 'concentrated' efforts. I'm not talking >> about everyone going and doing what ever they like, there would be >> some direction. One fork to rule them all. > > I brought up this idea a while back [1], but there wasn't much discussion on > the issue. I think brotherbard's GitHub fork is, for now, considered to be > the repo where most development takes place, but I agree that it'd be nice to > have a more centralized core of developments, and a "canonical" repo for > development. > > > [1] http://groups.google.com/group/gitx/msg/3af6512b5a99a622 > > > ---- > Michael Dippery > [email protected] | www.monkey-robot.com
