On 2010-11-25, Derick Rethans <der...@php.net> wrote: > On Thu, 25 Nov 2010, Pierre Joye wrote: > > > We have moved not too long ago and for what I see it gave some > > opportunities to many of us to see what are the other tools on the > > market, git and github in particular. I think 99% of the active > > developers here are on github or use git in one way or another. > > Before even talking about git; the discussion should focus on whether > we want DVCS. There are other things out there beside gits, which are > not that difficult to use and provide just as much functionality.
Actually, this is the right question... but there's another option. Offer PHP via as many VCS systems as possible. A number of Apache projects do this, and have ways to keep the various systems in sync. This would offer the most flexibility, as well as appease the largest number of developers. > > Please not I'm not requesting to do it now and here, only trying to > > get a feeling/poll about git usage. > > I am not in favour; I will repeat what I just wrote to Davey: > DVCS is also a lot more egocentric thing, instead of > collaboration. That's a pretty broad generalization, and one I've *never* heard voiced before. I've actually found exactly the opposite -- DVCS tends to be more democratic (developers can create and maintain features and share them easily), and less egocentric (DVCS developers are more willing to share and cherry-pick than in projects with centralized control). Can you please qualify the above statement. > You want your stuff exposed to as many developers as possible instead > of walled gardens. How is SVN not just another such walled garden? > It might be easy enough to share, but discovery is a lot harder. Perhaps. But that's what mailing lists, issue trackers, and blogs are for. I've had very little issue with discovery, to be honest. -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney Project Lead | matt...@zend.com Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/ PGP key: http://framework.zend.com/zf-matthew-pgp-key.asc -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
