-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Jan 3, 2009, at 10:52 AM, Victor Stinner wrote: >> A little offtopic: it seems to me it is a flaw of svn, that it >> encourages the model of two classes of developers, those with a >> commit >> access (first class) and those without it (second class). > > Yes, that's the problem. Is it not possible to have finer permission > (instead > of boolean permission: commit or not commit)? Eg. give commit access > but only > for a file or a directory? It looks like Tarek Ziade is now allowed to > commit, but only on distutils. I like such permission because nobody > knows > the whole Python project, it's too huge for a single brain ;-) Well, except for Guido and Tim maybe :) Python does have finer grain permissions, but it's strictly by convention. We /could/ have technical means to control those permissions, but it's never been worth the effort before. >> your main point is that using bugtracker for committing patches >> is very painful (I agree) > > No, my point is that some patches stay too long in the tracker. GIT, > Mercurial > or anything else are a little bit better than the tracker (the > patches can be > synchronized with upstream), but the goal is to be part of the > upstream code > base. > > A distributed VCS is useful to test huge changes. Performance > improvment on > integers (patches to optimize the multiplication, use base 2^30 > instead of > 2^15, etc.) would benefit from such tools, because cooperative work is > easier. A DVCS has lots and lots of benefits. One that I like a lot is that it will be much easier for people to maintain such bigger branches while still tracking changes to the trunk. And a DVCS like Bazaar supports bundles which are essentially super-patches that contain all the meta data that a real branch would have. So a bzr bundle would be a fine thing to attach to a tracker issue, and it would be much more alive than a plain old patch. - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBSV+wuXEjvBPtnXfVAQK/bQQAnZIjOCZAvRX/Jgzwn7Qkq5cqSnB/6qs2 gDls7tTlGJdtmYgSoZDVhosExaLA7AqvSMxsdTgEID4ejhh1TX42xzifeWyAhwrz WrK591SfoNXHG+YxhIRebt9wenGYzn3S/Qe5eJ0Jct7u0G6rDWK0X35OyZa+woC1 BNK6H0fTfUo= =mK3Y -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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