On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 10:50:01AM -0700, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > --On Wednesday, October 13, 2004 1:21 AM +0800 Niclas Hedhman > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I am sure that the upper-tier of ASF would shiver at the thought that > >hordes > >of people can gain direct access to the repositories. They/we will dust of > >the same arguments of why Wiki won't work. But it does. Why? Because *most* > >people *want* it to work. > > Baloney. Code review is *essential*. For httpd, we require *three* people > to sign off on any change before it gets merged into the stable branch. We > take our responsibility for providing stable software *extremely* > seriously. We're not about to deploy untested (and unreviewed) fixes to > the general population. It would not bode well on our personal reputations > or of our software's. Therefore, we're also extremely cautious about adding > new committers.
My version of the idea is not to let random strangers manipulate the branch that will be released with our brand, but rather to have a version control system that allows random strangers to commit proposed changes with just normal version control commands, without the mental overhead of going outside this system to create a patch, find the right place in bugzilla, create a bug report and submit, attach the patch as a second step, find out the patch was formatted wrong, resubmit, etc. This version is a matter of ease of interaction, not of releasing control of a branded release branch and accompanying quality control. My personal favorite system for this is the up-and-coming Monotone vc system, but it is still in its apha stage. --Tim Larson --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
