On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 17:25 +0300, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: [ . . . ] > project where community involvement is important. For example, I think > that moving DMD/Phobos/DRuntime from SVN to Bazaar/Monotone/DARCS would be > a very bad idea (and I think that GitHub's featureset would fit D's > community perfectly).
Moving to any of Bazaar, Mercurial or Git would be a huge step forward for any FOSS project currently using Subversion. Monotone and Darcs would be a big risk because Bazaar, Mercurial and Git are the main players. Staying with Subversion acts as a barrier to development effort by anyone other than the Subversion committers. Even if the bzr-svn, hgsubversion or git-svn plugins are used to bridge from a central Subversion repository, the barriers are just too high to allow for ad hoc contribution. So if a project wishes to enforce the "us and them" partitioning of the community then fine stay with Subversion. If the idea is to allow for a widening of the active contributor base then a move to a DVCS is an enabling step. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@russel.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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