Am Freitag 03 April 2009 02:22:05 schrieb Daniel Cheng: > DVCS does _NOT_ means accepting anonymous contribution. > > However, if we want to, there is nothing stopping us.
Personally I think it important for freenet to slowly establish a workflow where people contribute pseudonymously, because that will build a group of trusted committers which will be essential should freenet ever be outlawed. Also that will open the way to a seamless transition to completely freenet- based development. For that workflow freenet needs to use a DVCS. > This is no different from what we have been doing. > Lots of translation come from anonymous. > And I have been committing under the name "Daniel Cheng", > but nobody have ever verified my id. But you can bet tracked down (you're posting in this ML...). I don't know what a copyright lawyer will say to completely anonymous contributions, so the VCS of Freenet should allow for pseudonymous management of the anonymous contributions. > > PS: For strengths and weaknesses of hg and git (and bzr), you can have a > > look at the excellent DVCS PEP of Python. They analysed which DVCS would > > be suited best for their different usecases: > > - http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0374/ > > Hg is written in python. > I have no question they can script Hg like me scripting Git.. > This is an extra advantage for them, but not us. > [...] Naturally hg being Python based is an extra advantage for Python - that's why I said "look at it", and not "follow their decision without thinking". They created a nice resource for projects switching from SVN. Every DVCSs part was written by a supporter of that DVCS. Logically the text has a bias towards Python, but since it's a Python PEP noone can claim he didn't know about that bias :) git in turn is written in C, bash and perl, which makes it harder to use for Windows users. What kind of scripts do you use? I ask, because as long as you don't do low-level index manipulation or similar plumbing stuff, you should be able to do the same with Mercurial - without using Python. Hooks for example are just shell commands defined in the repositories hgrc file (and can also call any kind of script). I use outgoing hooks to simply call lftp for uploading changed files when I do simple web development. Similarly the Mercurial shell interface (and its templating options) allow to easily use shell scripts for more highlevel tasks. Besides: I'll try to keep my posts focussed, because I already had one long git vs. hg discussion, and I assume you had yours, too - one initiation into the deep guts of DVCSs suffices :) Also I'm new to this list. Best wishes, Arne -- -- Ein Würfel System: http://1w6.org - einfach saubere (Rollenspiel-) Regeln. -- Infinite Hands: http://infinite-hands.draketo.de - singing a part of the history of free software. -- My stuff: http://draketo.de - stories, songs, poems, programs and stuff :) -- PGP/GnuPG: http://draketo.de/inhalt/ich/pubkey.txt
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