On Monday, 17 December 2012 at 18:14:54 UTC, foobar wrote:
At the moment we may use git commands but really we are still developing on mostly a subversion model. Walter used to accept patches and those were simply replaced by pull requests. There isn't any change in the mental model required to really benefit from a decentralized system such as git. This is what the process discussion is ultimately meant to fix.
I think you've made a very good point. In order to make the most out of the way decentralized systems work vs a centralized one, will require an adjustment in the way people think. If we choose to follow the centralized model nothing will be gained when using a decentralized service, however centralization has its place and there's an obvious need to merge decentralized branches into a common centralize branch so that there's a common branch to use for testing and performing releases (etc).
I find it's great to debate ideas in here first, not the talk page, but any conclusions or interesting points of view should be posted into the wiki talk page so that it is not lost. IMO this one should go in the wiki if only to remind people that we have the flexibility of decentralized model to take advantage of.
--rt
