On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Stefano Bagnara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Burrell Donkin ha scritto: >> >> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Stefano Bagnara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<snip> >> IMO excessive use of branching lies at the heart of many of community >> issues experience by JAMES. when branches are used in this way, there >> tends to be a lack of community engagement and involvement in the >> branch and the results are present as a complete take-it-or-leave-it >> solution. > > I usually use branches/sandbox only to demonstrate stuff or as part of the > release process. > I knew you and Oled was much more active than me that days and so I decided > my work on trunk would have created issue and it was not appropriate for a > JIRA patch because of the related issue based on that patch (patch against > patched code in JIRA is useless IMHO). > > You are too much scared of the branch: if Oleg simply ignored my branch and > kept fixing bugs in trunk I would have simply waited agreement on my branch > and committed the needed stuff the same way I would have done with local > code or with JIRA patches. i'm not scared of branches: i just dislike the effect that they tend to have on communities. it's great that you dived in with some code and it's great that you shared it with us. i agree that it's best to have a record but (innocuous as this one might be) private branches are a bad habit to slip into. patches - or just commiting onto trunk - are usually much better. > May it be you are much more busy than a week ago and you had no time to > understand what was going on? I hope this is the case. i am busy (and unwell) but neither is likely to change any time soon - robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
