On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 17:44 +0100, Bruce Stephens wrote: > Bruce Stephens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Lapo Luchini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > >> Uh, really? 0_o > >> I had thought for the past years that monotone meant just that… > > > > Yes, I think it was about monotonically non-decreasing quality, not > > about never removing stuff. > > I was fairly sure that was the original motivation (and that all this > other stuff (better merging, etc.) was just an unfortunate > distraction), but I can't seem to find any confirmation of that. So > maybe I'm misremembering?
Feb 09 16:32:22 graydon I initially wrote monotone in order to support the use-case of a "monotonically improving branch", where there's a view of a branch which never gets worse, constructed by selecting only the branch certs signed by an automatic tester. Feb 09 16:32:41 graydon this way a customer or user who wanted "new, but never worse" software could view the branch that way Feb 09 16:33:22 graydon or alternatively, a developer could configure their update rules to exclude stuff other people wrote which isn't working yet _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel
