On Jun 11, 2008, at 12:57 PM, Todd Lipcon wrote:
My assumption is that the long-running-patch-series type projects (e.g. C bindings, new Erlang bindings, Ruby rewrite, etc) are primarily undertaken by a group of core developers who have no problem learning to use and using git. The majority of contributions from non-core contributors are more likely to be the one-diff JIRA submissions.
Speaking as the author of the ruby rewrite, I'm not actually a core developer. I am a third-party contributor whose company uses thrift and wanted better ruby libs, so I simply forked Kevin Clark's git repo and started working. So even as just a contributor I have been able to work on a long-running patch series, get feedback and code review from Kevin Clark (on IRC), and post some information to this list about what I've been up to. If we were using svn, what I've been doing would have been extremely difficult.
-Kevin Ballard -- Kevin Ballard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
