Hello, 2009/11/16 Marcin Cieslak <[email protected]>: > Dnia 15.11.2009 Nakor <[email protected]> napisał/a: >> --===============2429419130569035772== >>> Please test your stuff decently before you commit it! About every time I >>> do an svn update I have to get rid of dozens of bugs >>> >>> Maarten >>> >>> >>> >>> >> I agree with Marteen. Maybe a branch system should be implemented to >> garantee trunk stability. > > Maybe committer in question could comment on what (s)he is doing? > It's not the first time. Branches are not necessary, one is free to experiment > in his/her local archive.
The committer in question never comments on what he's doing. > We could of course switch to Mercurial if we really need per-developer > branches. I could not agree more here. Mercurial has a lot of very interesting features. However, if we adopt a "push-all" model, the kind of problems we're experimenting will not go away, as every committer will still be able to break the mainline when pushing his changes. Changing the tool alone does not fix bad development habits. The only way to ensure stability IMHO is to introduce a strict review process, where a changeset has to be reviewed by a qualified developer other than the submitter before making it into the main development branch. It appears to slow down the process at first, because it introduces a delay in the commit workflow, but in the end code quality significantly improves, and this reduces maintenance costs. Being now used to the Mercurial community, where each patch is sent to the dev- mailing list before being pulled by the relevant maintainer, I would love to see those practices here. If the community was interested to do the switch, I would be willing to spend a significant part of my time to review patches, and/or give assistance in Mercurial usage. I think that a few developers in the past got tired of pywikipedia, specifically because of our development process. I would love to improve that aspect of our project. Regards, > > -- > << Marcin Cieslak // [email protected] >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Pywikipedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l > -- Nicolas Dumazet — NicDumZ _______________________________________________ Pywikipedia-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l
