On 27 May 2010 01:55, Matthew Brett <matthew.br...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > >> Linux has Linus, ipython has Fernando, nipy has... well, I'm sure it is >> somebody. Numpy and Scipy no longer have a central figure and I like it that >> way. There is no reason that DVCS has to inevitably lead to a central >> authority. > > I think I was trying to say that the way it looks as if it will be - > before you try it - is very different from the way it actually is when > you get there. Anne put the idea very well - but I still think it is > very hard to understand, without trying it, just how liberating the > workflow is from anxieties about central authorities and so on. You > can just get on with what you want to do, talk with or merge from > whoever you want, and the whole development process becomes much more > fluid and productive. And I know that sounds chaotic but - it just > works. Really really well.
One way to think of it is that there is no "main line" of development. The only time the central repository needs to pull from the others is when a release is being prepared. As it stands we do have a single release manager, though it's not necessarily the same for each version. So if we wanted, they could just go and pull and merge the repositories of everyone who's made a useful change, then release the results. Of course, this will be vastly easier if all those other people have already merged each other's results (into different branches if appropriate). But just like now, it's the release manager's decision which changes end up in the next version. This is not the only way to do git development; it's the only one I have experience with, so I can't speak for the effectiveness of others. But I have no doubt that we can find some way that works, and I don't think we necessarily need to decide what that is any time soon. Anne > See you, > > Matthew > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
