[packagers] Re: [svn] r5000 - trunk/rpms/xine-lib-moles

[Wil Cooley]

On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 15:38 +0100, Dag Wieers wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Matthias Saou wrote:
> 
> > packagers at lists.rpmforge.net wrote :
> > 
> > > Author: thias
> > > Date: 2006-12-18 13:50:35 +0100 (Mon, 18 Dec 2006)
> > > New Revision: 5000
> > 
> > Revision 5000, wow! :-D
> 
> Damn, you beat me to it again !
> 
> Here's the score:

Interesting coincidence.  My local Linux user group had a talk last
night by Randal Schwartz (the "Learning Perl" guy) on using Git; Linus
was also there to heckle/correct him.  It got me thinking about one of
the problem I have contributing to RPMforge--it's a real pain to
contribute without Subversion write access.  It's difficult, then, to be
a casual contributor--submitting patches through mail is a pain both for
the sender and the gatekeeper, but without doing so for a long period of
time, it's not possible to build up the trust necessary to gain write
access.

Git (and Mercurial, it was mentioned) were both designed to handle this
kind of stuff.  I'm sure you've all seen how kernel development works; a
developer clones the source tree, makes his changes and then sends a
message with "Linus (or whichever maintainer for whatever subsystem)
please pull my tree from git://whatever", whereupon the tree is pulled,
changes evaluated, and life moves on.  (And there's a special mechanism
for automatically handling patches sent by Git through e-mail.)

I realize that version control systems may be the 4th biggest subject of
flame wars (behind editors, distributions/operating systems and
databases) and I have no intention of starting one.  Is switching to a
VCS that handles distributed development more easily something you have
or would consider?  I realize you're all busy and that learning a new
tool, especially one as complex as Git, can be challenging and
time-consuming; I may be naive to think that Git or Mercurial would be
appropriate.

Wil
-- 
Wil Cooley <wcooley at nakedape.cc>
http://nakedape.cc
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