On Wed, 15 Sep 2010, Santiago Gala wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Dirk-Willem van Gulik > <di...@webweaving.org> wrote: > > > > Especially as the pattern seems to be conductive to personal > > gratification** more than community; and leads to patchcollections > > which are the work of love of a single person quite easily. And that > > seems to cause fragmentation on an end to end level. I.e. rather than > > scratching your own itch - and solving it at a product level - you > > create a small alternate reality in which you nullify the issue, in > > which you isolate - and then welcome people on your island - but > > you've not made the world a slightly easier place. Somehow it feels as > > if there is some driver lacking, some positive need to have > > communities collaborate. > > What makes you think that without github people effectively tries to > get patches "upstream"? IMO, most of may patches have remained forever > in my HD until I deleted or a crash destroyed them.
Right. In my experience a lot of places that deploy open source software will fix little niggles (gaps in functionality / integration impedance mismatches / whatever) in an expedient manner. They are often reluctant to expose their changes because they are too specific or scruffy. > Github puts a *public* **indexable** fork one click away. It gives you > a backup, so that there is incentive to have all your microchanges up > asap. Right, and it seems to be encouraging people to make their previously private patches public. I agree with you that dirkx is observing a problem that was always there but previously less visible. > IMO, the main differente between distributed and centralized SCM is that > centralized SCM people views my work as "dirty" working copy, while > distributed SCM people views it as commits pending integration in my > repository... I have been quite impressed by the culture of code review on the git mailing list, and the way they use the tools to improve patchsets before integration. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <d...@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ HUMBER THAMES DOVER WIGHT PORTLAND: NORTH BACKING WEST OR NORTHWEST, 5 TO 7, DECREASING 4 OR 5, OCCASIONALLY 6 LATER IN HUMBER AND THAMES. MODERATE OR ROUGH. RAIN THEN FAIR. GOOD. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: community-unsubscr...@apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: community-h...@apache.org
