KDE development with git

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Thursday 12 July 2007, Benjamin Meyer wrote:
> So if we have separate svn depots rather then one massive one we are
> suddenly breaking up the community? 

i don't think most people to "svn co svn://svn.kde.org/trunk/" right now 
anyways, so .. .no. as long as the url scheme remains sensible it should be 
fine.

> Having one massive depot doesn't make a community. 

i didn't say it did. but having more technology to learn to get involved 
degrades the community. 

(btw, you've set up a straw man with your email here ;)

> And what about all the third party apps?  Are they 
> not part of the community because they are not in our one depot?

the bald fact of the matter is that those apps do get less attention, do get 
less testing, do get less help with code and do get fewer translations, etc. 
so ... yes. they are benefiting less from the community that exists. 

it's sort of like a city with outlaying towns. there are benefits to living in 
the countryside and many choose to do exactly that; but more and more people 
choose to live in cities for the benefits that come with increased population 
density.

but here's another thing to consider: if kfooapp is in its own repo, but it is 
using tools you are already familiar with are you more apt to grab it's 
source and hack on that bug you noticed? what if kfooapp is using a vcs you 
have no clue about... are you then more or less apt to check out its leading 
edge development, contribute patches, etc? and that's the issue...

it's even an issue for those of us involved, imagine those that aren't yet 
involved who now feel the need to get involved and would then need to learn 
not only svn or git, but both to truly be involved ...

we'd also need to invest more time and effort into the tutorials on 
techbase ... etc.. it has a lot of costs associated.

vcs, bug trackers, etc are part of the language of the community. the more 
unified they are, the greater the flow of effort across the community can be.

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
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