Re: git anyone?

On Thu, 25 Nov 2010, Ferenc Kovacs wrote: > On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > > > Derick Rethans wrote: > > > >> On Thu, 25 Nov 2010, Pierre Joye wrote: > >> > >>> Please not I'm not requesting to do it now and here, only trying to > >>> get a feeling/poll about git usage. > >> > >> I am not in favour; I will repeat what I just wrote to Davey: > >> DVCS is also a lot more egocentric thing, instead of > >> collaboration. You want your stuff exposed to as many developers as > >> possible instead of walled gardens. It might be easy enough to > >> share, but discovery is a lot harder. > > > > Ignoring the problems of actually using github I think this is > > exactly the problem we are finding with those projects that have > > pushed over to git. MANAGING what is allowed back into some master > > copy of the code base is the bit that is a lot more difficult than > > with current arrangements. The result is several versions of the > > same projects simply because people are doing their own things and > > then nobody knows which version to pull from. The release manager > > has to un-pick what should be merged and even on a small project > > this is time consuming. If everybody with their own agenda for PHP > > starts doing their own builds we will end up with even more branches > > since they will just be publishing them ;) > > http://progit.org/book/ch5-1.html > I think we could go with either an Integration Manager kind of workflow, or > with the Dictator and Lieutenants (that is used for the linux development). > either way, with good merging tools, the integrations isn't such of a > problem. Whatever workflow we prefer is not what is guaranteed to happen. I agree totally with Lester here. DVCS fragments the development team. cheers, Derick -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://xdebug.org Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: http://xdebug.org/donate.php twitter: @derickr and @xdebug