On 15/03/2017 18:58, Richard Hipp wrote: > On 3/15/17, Roy Marples <r...@marples.name> wrote: >> I still think Fossil is a good tool, technically superior in many >> places, but I just gave up trying to make the design of it more socially >> adaptable to the current open source world. >> > > I will argue that you are conflating "Bazaar-style Development" with > "Open Source". Though correlated, these are not the same thing. > SQLite is a prominent example of an open source project that uses > cathedral-style development instead of bazaar-style development. > > It is a common error to confuse "bazaar-style development" with "open > source". Perhaps this confusion arises because "bazaar-style > development" does implies "open source". It is the converse that is > false. "Open source" does *not* imply 'bazaar-style development". I > want to encourage you to revise your blog post to make this > distinction clear.
I didn't use the term Open Source once in the "Fossil is not social" section, I just described the model. I have edited the blog post to reflect this. Although I realise now that this retort was probably more reflective of my email here rather than my blog post. > I will argue that Fossil is still the best choice for any > cathedral-style open-source project. If you want to say that GitHub > (or Mercurial or something else) works better for bazaar-style > projects, that it fine. But I think it is incorrect to say that those > others are better for *all* open-source projects. I didn't say *all* open source projects. To avoid any confusion, I added the word "my" to the closing paragraph. Because, after all, these are my opinions. Based on what you have said here though, I recommend changing the text on https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.wiki in 3.3 Cathedral vs. Bazaar to no longer state that Fossil suitable for Bazaar style. Roy _______________________________________________ fossil-dev mailing list fossil-dev@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-dev
