[Koha-devel] Moving to Arch?

[Anthony Youngman]

Not that I'm aware of ...

What it is, is that Koha is getting bigger, and CVS doesn't scale ...
just look at linux and bitkeeper.

Arch means basically that any developer can maintain their own tree,
without worrying about treading on any body else's toes. With CVS you
always have the worry that either you are going to be unable to work
because somebody else has checked out the module you want, or somebody
checks in a module and blows away someone else's work because they both
had the same module checked out at the same time ... okay CVS is meant
to prevent the latter, but that only works when you have a PHB handing
out tasks ...

CVS is excellent for a tightly managed project - in other words NOT a
big distributed FLOSS project. Arch, bitkeeper, ?subversion? et al are
designed to handle distributed development.

And at the end of the day, even with CVS, don't you need a single
director in order to prevent anarchy? :-)

Cheers,
Wol

-----Original Message-----
From: koha-devel-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:koha-devel-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Owen
Leonard
Sent: 23 September 2004 15:49
To: koha-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] Moving to Arch?

> > So does this mean that I can't merge back into the main 
> > branch ... that you
> > have do do that?  In CVS anyone with devel privs could 
> > commit to the main repo ... or am I mising something?
> 
> Either the RM or their automaton will need to do the merge. 

> This is a deliberate model change from CVS which both allows 

> more people to do more development tasks without waiting for 

> approval, and allows the RM to say "show me the code" before 

> accepting it into the final release tree, if they want.

It sounds like this is quite a shift of power, if I understand 
correctly, from a group of trusted developers to a single 
director who chooses what goes in and what doesn't.  Do I 
understand correctly?

Have we had problems in the past that will be alleviated by 
this shift of power?

  -- Owen


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