On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko <deb...@onerussian.com> wrote: > Just - Wow... thanks! > > Hopefully digesting of this tasty post would not cause too much of farting ;-)
:) > seems might be worth adding (if I am not missing the point), then the > concept of "derivatives" would then converge finally to a more > digestible, more manageable, and thus more robust mechanism of > branches... ? ahh, you're still using "git": i'll be doing nothing more fancy than creating a "git-remote-helper" which will add a protocol gitp2p:// or gpp:// or something like that. so you'll still need to understand the concept of branches and branching: it's just that you'd be able to grab them from peers rather than being reliant on a central server. imagine a situation where you meet a fellow debian developer(s) and you both(all) happen to be on holiday or just... somewhere where connectivity is patchy. i envisage a situation where both (or all) publish their own trackers, and they can simply share whatever bits of git repositories they (individually) happened to be "most interested in, personally", with everyone else. for example, one person happens to have an OCD-fueled interest in keeping up-to-date with every single mailing list, whilst another happens to be interested in some obscure piece of software. everybody collaborates, does loads of packages, GPG signs them, commits them to each others' git repositories, they all say bye bye nice meeting you, get on planes or goats and the VERY first person who happens to have internet access does a "git push", wham, everyones' packages are uploaded/available to the rest of the world. including those people who shared them originally, but they have the git commit refs already _in_ their database, so when _they_ get online as well, they automatically become "seeds" as part of the wider git-bittorrent network for those packages. so... yeah. it's a little... radical, but actually nothing more than a mind-shift rather than any actual significant coding. l. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktintf4xjugend0slotu341=bfaxsdrcwo=1wq...@mail.gmail.com
