[dmd-internals] DVCS and patches feedback [was: dmd commit, revision 515]

[Jason House]

On Jun 3, 2010, at 10:28 AM, Leandro Lucarella <llucax at gmail.com> wrote:

> Brad Roberts, el  2 de junio a las 22:25 me escribiste:
>>
>>
>> For my 2 cents:
>>
>> The dcvs systems are still too user unfriendly (though git is the  
>> only one I've
>> used for more than toying around, I've looked at a couple others at  
>> least a little).
>
> I don't think they are user unfriendly, is just a mind change you have
> to do. It's hard to change, it might have a steep learning curve, but
> once you set your mind around it, it's really easy to use (and very
> friendly, really, they put a lot of focus on usability; and I'm  
> talking
> about git too).

steep learning curve == user unfriendly

Anything is usable with enough practice...


>
>> Additionally, I don't find the "put ready patches in bugzilla" to be
>> particularly problematic at all from my end.
>
> Me either! I'm not suggesting stop using bugzilla at all! What I  
> suggest
> is to keep bugzilla as it is, but add a simple extra line "You can  
> pull
> this patch from my repo at URL, branch BRANCH".
>
> The Walter's job goes from:
> 1) Copy the text from bugzilla
> 2) Open a text file
> 3) Paste the text
> 4) Save the text file
> 5) Apply the patch
> 5bis) Maybe modify the patch in some way
> 6) Commit, writing a commit message
>
> To:
> 1) run git pull URL BRANCH

You're stacking the deck by skipping steps you put in the other list.


> You can see the current approach is a lot of work for Walter (maybe he
> has some more efficient system than this, but it's a lot of work
> anyways).

I agree it'd be slightly easier on Walter after he had practice.

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