Per Inge Mathisen schreef: >> Also this would make incremental development (i.e. where change B >> depends on change A) nearly impossible (due to the minimum of 48 hrs >> wait time before committing if no one commented by then), thus it would >> actually promote "mega patches" which no one understands anymore (this >> due to the fact that Subversion is only capable of tracking a single >> change from "public" HEAD). git-svn could alleviate this somewhat, but >> only for changes that require no other changes than file modifications. > > Shall we try this system for a little while before spelling doom and > gloom over it?
I'm not saying that *will* happen, I'm saying that I think that is a *possible* outcome of it and that I don't like that one. I hope you can understand how I came to this as a possible outcome and also agree that it is something that should be prevented. As long as we agree on that, we can at least look out for this problem and try to prevent it. I was just sharing my concerns... >> Then regarding: >>> If a subsystem of the code has its own maintainer, that person is >>> free to make commits to this code without posting to the list first. >> I hope you don't mean this to translate to "subsystems are owned by >> their maintainers" ? As I think that code ownership is a *very*, *very* >> bad thing. This because it will demotivate people that are not the >> "owner" to touch that code, which would result in only the "owner" >> having real knowledge about how that code works. > > Well, it works for the linux kernel, so I suppose it cannot be all that bad. Honestly, I don't think Warzone can be properly compared with the Linux kernel. The two are on two completely different orders of magnitude, both in the code's size and complexity as well as the community's size and complexity. Plus I don't see how scaring people from modifying certain parts of the code could ever be a good thing (not even for the Linux kernel). -- Giel
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