On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Vlad Seryakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One benefit i can see is not immediate and obvious but having more > flexible source control system may attract or make it easy to handle > access to more developers, easy to revert unneeded changes, as Stephan > pointed, better patch control and changsets. > > Yes, it will require some learning but not that much, still this is just > source control system, using it in the-CVS-mode, as commit/update/diff, > will be possible with any tool. >
Yeah, for this particular project then a new version control system is not going to bring new developers stampeding through the door. But there is some potentially nice usability benefits for newbies. A couple of times recently on the aolserver list there should have been some patches flowing but instead either whole files or tarballs have been posted, making it extremely difficult to figure out whats been changed, and making it unlikely that the changes will be incorporated into cvs. The mechanics of doing it right aren't hard per-se, but it can be non obvious and sometimes it's a pain. Obviously there are other problems with aolserver development, but if there was a culture of passing patches back and forth it would make up for a lot. I think in general we've just scratched the surface of how to work with dvcs'. A lot of focus has been put on some of the new technical abilities, just as svn was better because of atomic commits, renames etc. But the new systems have a lot more headroom for new ways to work. It's interesting to me, that after ~ 3 years use of git for kernel development they're even now having discussions about whether or not you should rebase if you're a maintainer (pull and rebase other peoples patches). You shouldn't, apparently, and the way it was explained makes sense (saw this on kerneltrap.org I think, if you're interested). It will be cool to see how open source development is done in a couple of years when we figure this all out... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ naviserver-devel mailing list naviserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/naviserver-devel
