Derick Rethans wrote:
On Thu, 25 Nov 2010, Pierre Joye wrote:
We have moved not too long ago and for what I see it gave some
opportunities to many of us to see what are the other tools on the
market, git and github in particular. I think 99% of the active
developers here are on github or use git in one way or another.
Before even talking about git; the discussion should focus on whether we
want DVCS. There are other things out there beside gits, which are not
that difficult to use and provide just as much functionality.
Please not I'm not requesting to do it now and here, only trying to
get a feeling/poll about git usage.
I am not in favour; I will repeat what I just wrote to Davey:
DVCS is also a lot more egocentric thing, instead of
collaboration. You want your stuff exposed to as many developers as
possible instead of walled gardens. It might be easy enough to
share, but discovery is a lot harder.
Ignoring the problems of actually using github I think this is exactly the
problem we are finding with those projects that have pushed over to git.
MANAGING what is allowed back into some master copy of the code base is the bit
that is a lot more difficult than with current arrangements. The result is
several versions of the same projects simply because people are doing their own
things and then nobody knows which version to pull from. The release manager has
to un-pick what should be merged and even on a small project this is time
consuming. If everybody with their own agenda for PHP starts doing their own
builds we will end up with even more branches since they will just be publishing
them ;)
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