On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 03:10 -0800, Walter Bright wrote: > Nick Sabalausky wrote: > > "Caligo" <iteronve...@gmail.com> wrote in message > > news:mailman.451.1294306555.4748.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... > >> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Walter Bright > >> <newshou...@digitalmars.com>wrote: > >> > >>> That's pretty much what I'm afraid of, losing my grip on how the whole > >>> thing works if there are multiple dmd committers. > >>> > >>> Perhaps using a modern SCM like Git might help? Everyone could have (and > >> should have) commit rights, and they would send pull requests. You or one > >> of the managers would then review the changes and pull and merge with the > >> main branch. It works great; just checkout out Rubinius on Github to see > >> what I mean: https://github.com/evanphx/rubinius > >> > > > > I'm not sure I see how that's any different from everyone having "create > > and > > submit a patch" rights, and then having Walter or one of the managers > > review > > the changes and merge/patch with the main branch. > > I don't, either.
Pity, because using one of Mercurial, Bazaar or Git instead of Subversion is likely the best and fastest way of getting more quality contributions to review. Although only anecdotal in every case where a team has switched to DVCS from CVCS -- except in the case of closed projects, obviously -- it has opened things up to far more people to provide contributions. Subversion is probably now the single biggest barrier to getting input on system evolution. -- 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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