On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:32, Eric Evans <eev...@rackspace.com> wrote: >... > I agree with this, and as a Cassandra committer I have in the past > protested our use of RTC. However, the current work-flow *in practice* > is more about having someone, anyone, give changes a once over (making > sure they build, that tests pass, that they do what they claim, etc), > before committing. > > I agree with you, but tabled my protest because in practice what we have > is working, doesn't seem to be a barrier to contribution, and everyone > seems happy with it (even the casual contributors).
I wouldn't say "everyone". This whole thread started because at least one person is not happy with it. > I actually work with > these people on a daily basis, and I trust that when/if it actually does > become a problem, that people will be open to changing it. This actually scares me a bit. That a discussion of methodology is happening among a few people at work, rather than among everybody on the mailing list. >... >> My opinion is that it is very unfortunate that Cassandra feels that it >> cannot trust its developers with a CTR model, and pushes RTC as its >> methodology. The group-mind smashes down the creativity of the >> individual, excited, free-thinking contributor. > > Cassandra is in incubation, so by all means, use the IPMC group-mind to > smash the individual, excited, and free-thinking Cassandra contributors > into submission. My opinion was asked, and I answered. Please don't ascribe more to it than that. Cheers, -g --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
