Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes ("Re: git bikeshedding (Re: triggers in dpkg, and dpkg maintenance)"): > Given that many of us work on the kernel, some of us are both upstream and > downstream in git, and therefore know *both* sides of the troubles and > advantages of git rebase quite well... I can see why you'd have a tough > time convincing anyone to change his mind about it. We will have lived it > ourselves and made up our minds about it a long time ago, already...
dpkg is not the Linux kernel. Linux dpkg Number of different people regularly contributing hundreds or three or significant changes thousands four Size of source (.tar.gz) 59 Mby 6.3 Mby Current gatekeepers Original author Developers who and hand-picked happened along lieutenants at the right time Organisational relationship None / Members of original between main contributors commercial project, under competition unified governance Linux has some very severe management problems to solve: its large size, its position right at the centre, and so forth. To deal with these problems, very heavyweight processes have evolved to ensure that the load on the small number of central gatekeepers is absolutely minimised. An underlying assumption is that in order to save a minute of work for Linus, it is worthwhile to impose tens of minutes, or even hours, of work on submitters. The gatekeepers in Linux can only delegate with extreme care because the code is too big for effective ongoing review, and because many contributors' motives are often specifically aligned with a desire to get a patch accepted - often with substantial financial implications. If you try to apply the same processes to dpkg, or to even smaller and less important projects, you're introducing a very cumbersome burden for very little good effect. It is very unfortunate for git that most of its advocates want to adopt these almost unmanageable development practices along with the revision control software. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]