Re: Can we improve things?

["Kalle Vahlman" <kalle vahlman gmail com>]

2007/9/7, Kevin Kubasik <kevin kubasik net>:
> 1) Gnome Systems - This is always going to be less than perfect, but
> the current state of affairs is almost embarrassing.

And as been said it is being worked on. I'm afraid the recent increase
in complaints might in fact be hindering the process, as who gets
motivation boosts from people announcing their retirement from the
project because of you?

I'm not touching the planet issue though, I don't really know about that.

> 2) Source Control - With the recent explosion of interest in
> distributed revision control systems, I guess this argument was bound
> to come up again.

It's not an argument, it's discussion ;)

> Focusing on the inital problem (SVN accounts are way
> backlogged, but apparently there are fixes to our account system on
> the way to help remedy this). I do think that if we were to switch to
> a distributed system magically and completely tomorrow, that would
> make things much easier. But if the Gnome admins are already up to
> their necks, should we really throw a massive VCS migration on top of
> that?

I hope nobody took my comments as suggestions that we should switch.
The migration to svn was a welcome and sensible choice. And even if I
do think migration to git would be even more beneficial and much(?)
easier than the migration from cvs to svn, being a realist I know that
there would be even greater storm of complaints against it for all
other reasons. And that would not help anyone.

I simply wanted to note that using git doesn't mean the rules of
engagement have to change, even if the tools do.

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Kalle Vahlman, zuh iki fi
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