[Kde-scm-interest] KOffice moving to gitorious

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Mon Feb 15 20:34:42 CET 2010


A Divendres, 12 de febrer de 2010, Boudewijn Rempt va escriure:
> On Friday 12 February 2010, Dmitry Suzdalev wrote:
> > On Friday 12 February 2010 17:33:23 Esben Mose Hansen wrote:
> > > Could someone spell out to me why moving parts like KOffice to git
> > > hinders (or  helps) anything? The only argument I've heard is that
> > > using 2 tools raises the bat for developers, but since KOffice
> > > development is unlikely to need changes to kdelibs, I don't see this
> > > is applicable here.
> > 
> > It does indirectly. As I've said I think this man power could be spent on
> > helping whole KDE SC switch to git and after that switching KOffice would
> > be a breeze (theoretically).
> > 
> > Instead we'll have people's initiative spent on moving individual
> > components while the core part is kept where it is with no (or little)
> > progress happening.
> 
> I don't believe in a big-bang approach anymore. I think we'll see more and
> more project "defect" on their own.

IMHO that's the worst case scenario where people acts as individuals and not 
for the greater good, too bad that's mostly human nature :-/

Albert


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