Moving to D

Russel Winder russel at russel.org.uk
Thu Jan 6 03:55:46 PST 2011


On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 03:10 -0800, Walter Bright wrote:
> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> > "Caligo" <iteronvexor at gmail.com> wrote in message 
> > news:mailman.451.1294306555.4748.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
> >> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Walter Bright
> >> <newshound2 at digitalmars.com>wrote:
> >>
> >>> That's pretty much what I'm afraid of, losing my grip on how the whole
> >>> thing works if there are multiple dmd committers.
> >>>
> >>> Perhaps using a modern SCM like Git might help?  Everyone could have (and
> >> should have) commit rights, and they would send pull requests.  You or one
> >> of the managers would then review the changes and pull and merge with the
> >> main branch.  It works great; just checkout out Rubinius on Github to see
> >> what I mean: https://github.com/evanphx/rubinius
> >>
> > 
> > I'm not sure I see how that's any different from everyone having "create and 
> > submit a patch" rights, and then having Walter or one of the managers review 
> > the changes and merge/patch with the main branch.
> 
> I don't, either.

Pity, because using one of Mercurial, Bazaar or Git instead of
Subversion is likely the best and fastest way of getting more quality
contributions to review.  Although only anecdotal in every case where a
team has switched to DVCS from CVCS -- except in the case of closed
projects, obviously -- it has opened things up to far more people to
provide contributions.  Subversion is probably now the single biggest
barrier to getting input on system evolution.

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