On Jul 20, 2007, at 17:28, Adam Spiers wrote:
This might be a pertinent moment to bring up the topic of revision control ... or actually it might be a particularly bad moment, considering that the maintainer is about to vanish for 3 weeks! But I wanted to propose the idea of adopting a distributed revision control system. This would allow any individual coder to (amongst other benefits) easily create short-term feature branches or bugfix branches off Carsten's releases, share them publically with others for testing, and enable very low-cost merging back into the mainstream. To use the current situation as one example, this would mean that Carsten can relax happily on the beach (or wherever he is ;-) knowing that his absence is guaranteed *not* to hold any progress back, even if he decided to stay there for several months ;-)
Now we are talking..... :-)
In case anyone's unfamiliar with the benefits of distributed revision control (vs. centralized, e.g. CVS/svn), enjoy this great talk by Linus Torvalds at google: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8 It claims to be about git, but actually it's more about distributed revision control systems in general - everything he says applies to similar systems such as mercurial.
Thanks for this enjoyable link - lots of fun to watch Linus like this. I'd like to make some comments about the development model or Org-mode and put it up here for discussion. - Org-mode is part of Emacs - this means that I can only accept patches from people who have signed the appropriate papers with the FSF. You might have noticed in the past that I usually don't simply apply a patch. I change it considerably or re-implement the feature, to make sure that we will not run into copyright issues. If you want to contribute to org-mode and make life easy for me, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and ask for the paperwork to become a contributor to org-mode in Emacs, and let me know what you have done so so that I can start to use your patches directly. - The second reason why I often don't apply patches exactly as submitted is because I see my role in filtering and shaping features so that they fit exactly into the feel and look of Org-mode as I see it. I don't want it to loose focus. You might see this as a good thing, but you could also see this as slowing down development. - I have never used git or a similar distributed tool - so I would have to learn how to use them. Thanks for your comments. - Carsten _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
