Re: commit-policy

Please don't move away from svn. GIT support in Eclipse sucks.

You can also use svk to get distributed svn.

http://svk.bestpractical.com/view/HomePage

jon

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Roall Lein-Killi
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Sounds like GIT would be the solution. What you are suggesting is the
>  way GIT works
>  (more or less).
>
>  But hey, I don't care so don't bother start flaming. :-)
>
>  Killi
>
>
>  On 6. mars. 2008, at 15.26, Völker Ronny wrote:
>
>  > Jorge Uriarte Aretxaga  wrote.
>  >> I'm crossposting to dev, because the voting should be public :-)
>  >
>  > I agree with that.
>  > I just wanted to respect the policy of Scarab - which I thought was
>  > voting about new committers in the committers-list.
>  >
>  > Because we are right now talking about this topic, how about
>  > relaxing the commit-policy:
>  >
>  > We could grant commit-access to everyone who requests it.
>  > Interested newcomers would get their own branch, they can
>  > immediately commit to.
>
> > First a newcomer would only commit into his own branch and a core-
>  > committer would decide when to merge into the trunk.
>  > After some of his contributions have made it into the trunk the
>  > newcomer himself would become a core-committer.
>  >
>
> > With this policy the contributions of  newcomers would immediately
>  > be under version control.
>  > This is much more convenient for the newcomers as well as the core-
>  > committers who are reviewing the contributions.
>  >
>  > I don't think that there is a great danger of abuse and even then we
>  > have svn for rescue.
>  >
>  > As someone stated, Scarab is a low-profile project. That's why the
>  > bigger challenge is to attract contributors, instead of preventing
>  > them from polluting the product with their personal pet-features (as
>  > it may be the case in high-profile projects like the Linux-kernel).
>  >
>  > Ronny
>  >
>  >
>  >
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