++ I was pretty excited to see the project SCM move to git. There is the potential to have explosive development growth and innovation.
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Morgaine <[email protected]>wrote: > The recent thread about "Leaving Opensim" highlights that not everyone has > yet absorbed the impact of recent changes in SCM. > > While it's true that the Opensim Core group still operates partly as a > Cathedral (because they anoint *people* to join them, instead of picking > code contributions on the merits of the code), the project's SCM moved from > SVN to Git a little while ago, and this brings about a profound change. > It's not merely a different SCM tool, but a change from centralized to > distributed code management, and this brings Opensim almost entirely into > the Bazaar model. (Non-programmers may want to see > http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/<http://www.catb.org/%7Eesr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/> > if this is new.) > > With Git, everyone's repository for the project has equal standing, and > anyone can clone their own repository, make changes, and advertise their > improvements. Approval by the Core team is not required, and nothing > important distinguishes Opensim Core's own repository from any other. The > system is truly distributed. > > As a result, there is no need for anyone to "leave Opensim" owing to > divergence of views or direction. Just clone your own repo and let people > know about it. If your contributions are useful, people will merge your > changes into their own clones of the Core repo, or will follow your branch, > or will clone your own repo wholesale. It's like old-fashioned forking but > without the hassles of forking, and with much reduced chasing of tail > lights. ;-) > > In time, I expect that the Opensim Core developer group will be replaced by > a Steering Group, perhaps once version 1.0 has been reached and a public > Opensim Foundation has been created. The steering group could select and > test well-regarded public contributions from a large number of community > developer Git repositories, picked on the basis of consistency and community > needs. Then the Bazaar will truly have arrived. > > But we're almost there anyway, because the tools already allow it. There > is no need to leave, just join the Git bazaar. :-) > > Morgaine. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev > >
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