Comments inline. > From: "David E. Jones" <d...@me.com> > Subject: Re: move to git.
> It may seem like chaos to have forks and changes spread all over the place... > but that isn't caused by the distributed source management approach, it's just > made visible and clear by the approach. Right now this exists on a large scale > for OFBiz, tons of forks and changes in them, but they are mostly not visible > or publicly available so there is no way for OFBiz committers to pull changes > from other repos... they basically have to be extracted into a patch file and > submitted through a Jira issue. > > In other words, the chaos exists and the distributed source management enabled > by git just makes it easier to track it all and tame it a bit. Precisely so. With GIT the chaos stays at its source until other players decide it is worth pulling into their copies of the world. With SVN you get the chaos of every committer whether you want it or not. (Note: this includes Brainfood's chaos for anyone who wants to mischaracterize my comments as an attack) > On a side note, this is one of the reasons I have concerns about making Moqui > and related projects part of the ASF: the ASF community approach doesn't fit > very well with this distributed source management model (pull requests are > discouraged, all contributions should go through Jira issues... though I don't > know that this is a strict policy). At Apachecon, Apache's engineering and corporate leadership advised me that we could move to using OFBiz to manage our issues instead of JIRA if we so desire.
