Re: [glob2-devel] contributions via forks

[Linus Probert]

Being schooled in configuration management I can say that this is a 
rock-solid solution, it provides a good overview to everyone and also an 
easy way to contribute. Also Leo can quickly overview code before 
pulling it into the main repo (hg.glob2). It's a good security fence in 
order to control the open source monster, as I read in an article once, 
a pretty accurate metaphor though.

May I also suggest that you, Leo, start enforcing nice comments and so 
forth, not sure how it works now, but it is never bad to tell whoever to 
write nice comments and readable code before it gets put into the main 
repo. The documentation is pretty poor as it is now according to me. But 
if we all keep documenting all functions we feel that we have understood 
and all functions that we have added we can successively reduce that 
flaw over time. A long time but still :-)

Maybe I am just writing what everybody already knew now, if that is the 
case then just keep doing what you do else, make a note of what is 
written above.

/L


Leo Wandersleb wrote:
> hi list,
>
> as i can't grant write access to hg.globulation2.org i normally tell 
> people to fork my copy at bitbucket [1] so i can pull those forks back 
> in to hg.glob2 [2].
> i like this for several reasons:
> * we don't depend on stephane or whoever can grant write access to 
> hg.glob2
> * we get more of a decentralized structure so if any of us stops 
> supporting glob2 nobody needs to worry
> * older members with write access can see what changes get into the 
> code base with a longer scope than one changeset so big plans finished 
> to 3% don't mess up hg.glob2
>
> on the other hand i don't want people to get frustrated about me (or 
> others) if we don't pull your valuable changes. if we miss to pull 
> after you have finished a cool 
> feature/documentation/cleanup/tool/.../change please complain on the 
> mailing list.
>
> thanx,
>
> leo wandersleb
>
> [1] http://bitbucket.org/giszmo/glob2
> [2] http://hg.globulation2.org/glob2-new
>
>
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