[Kde-scm-interest] akademy move to git bof summary

[Lydia Pintscher]

2010/7/12 Ingo Klöcker <kloecker at kde.org>:
> On Monday 12 July 2010, Lydia Pintscher wrote:
>> Heya :)
>>
>> We had a very good discussion about how to improve communication to
>> the rest of the community about our move to git. In the last months
>> we've honestly been rather bad with that every now and then. I've
>> seen sentences like "You're stupid because you're using SVN" and
>> that wasn't meant in a funny way in that conversation. That's
>> obviously not the way to win the hearts of the rest of the
>> community.
>>
>> The way forward is to make it clear in our communication that git
>> isn't perfect but brings us a huge amount of benefits. And at the
>> same time make it clear that SVN isn't perfect for us either atm.
>>
>> During the bof we came up with a list of good and bad things that we
>> need to talk about.
>>
>> = bad =
>> - allows offline commits -> community splitting
>
> It should be clearly communicated that "allowing offline commits" also
> is a very huge advantage of git over svn because it allows us to commit
> changes even if we are offline for whatever reasons (e.g. if we are on a
> train or plane or in some area with bad internet connection). In fact,
> this feature might even allow people to contribute who do not have
> internet connection at home, e.g. students especially in non-highly
> industrialized countries.

Yes that's why it is also mentioned under "good" ;-)

> Also, we do already have the problem you describe as community
> splitting. That's exactly what is already happening with all those
> developers who do already use Git locally (via git-svn). In fact, the
> change to Git might make this less of a problem because then those
> developers can easily share their Git branches with the rest of the
> community. In the end it depends more on the personal workflow and the
> personal preferences of the contributors than on the tool used for SCM
> whether they share their ongoing work with the rest of the community or
> not.

Yes. Agreed. This is however something we need to communicate again and again.
Also this is one of the biggest fear people have when talking about
moving KDE to git. We need to provide explanations and arguments again
and again to counter those fears. (Which is exactly what this whole
exercise is about btw)


Cheers
Lydia

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