Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like

[tomas]

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On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 10:36:30PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Tassilo Horn <address@hidden>

[...]

> > IMO this would change with a VCS like git, too.  On problem with the
> > current situation is that possible contributors might fear that their
> > changes break something or won't be liked by the core devs.  So they
> > don't even try it at all.
> 
> I don't see why.  Someone who wants just to try things can do that in
> their sandbox; no one will ever know they did it unless they tell or
> post the patches.  How is this different from using git?

To paraphrase what Tassilo has written elsewhere in this thread: the
potential contributor will be able to survive the time in which his
potential patches aren't integrated yet -- even pulling in changes made
to the main line. With CVS this is @#&%^H^H^H^Hdaunting.

Two recent examples: multy-tty and unicode. And even there, we are
benefitting from a distributed version control system, Arch, with a
friendly user interface put on top (named Miles :-)

Regards
- -- tomás
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