Am Mittwoch, den 16.04.2008, 14:40 +0100 schrieb Robert Burrell Donkin: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Stefano Bagnara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Noel J. Bergman ha scritto: > > > > > > > Hontvari Jozsef wrote: > > > > > > > > > > The trunk receives all changes. It must always be in a useable state. > > > > > > > > > > Trying convincing people of that. :-) Robert, for example, explicitly > > > considers that to be the wrong approach, and indicates that he considers a > > > substantial amount of trunk to be junk. His thought is to let everyone > > keep > > > dumping code into trunk until it is so bad that we are forced to make more > > > and more modular packaging. > > > > > > > Just to better understand PMC member opinions: Robert, can you confirm > > that: > > 1) You consider a substatial amount of trunk is junk > > 2) Your thought is to let everyone keep dumping code into trunk until it is > > so bad that we are forced to make more and more modular packaging? > > noel prefers to paraphrase complex arguments into simple soundbites :-) > > 1. i know that quite a lot of the IMAP/mailbox stuff is junk (both > mine code and the old stuff). IMAP/mailbox is most of trunk. so yes, a > substantial quantity of code in trunk is junk. a more important issue > is that it's difficult to gain consensus on the production quality of > the remaining code on trunk or make rational judgments about what's > basically sound but needs testing in production. i've only reviewed a > small proportion and some looks ok, some looks questionable but i'm > not enough of an expert to judge. > > 2. i want people to innovate on trunk rather than on their own > branches. innovating on branches is harmful to the community since > it's much harder to collaborate and entropy makes it difficult to > merge changes into trunk. we need to allow new ideas and we need to > allow it on trunk. IMHO modularisation is an inevitable consequence of > this approach. noel prefers to see this process as allowing anyone to > dump junk in trunk and i have no probably about that language but > that's not the way i see things. > > - robert
Makes all sense for me.. Cheers, Norman --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
