On Aug 16, 2013, at 2:12 AM, Robert Collins <robe...@robertcollins.net> wrote:
> On 16 August 2013 20:15, Maru Newby <ma...@redhat.com> wrote: > >>> This pattern has one slight issue, which is: >>> >>> • Do not assume the reviewer has access to external web services/site. >>> In 6 months time when someone is on a train/plane/coach/beach/pub >>> troubleshooting a problem & browsing GIT history, there is no guarantee >>> they will have access to the online bug tracker, or online blueprint >>> documents. The great step forward with distributed SCM is that you no >>> longer need to be "online" to have access to all information about the code >>> repository. The commit message should be totally self-contained, to >>> maintain that benefit. >> >> I'm not sure I agree with this. It can't be true in all cases, so it can >> hardly be considered a rule. A guideline, maybe - something to strive for. >> But not all artifacts of the development process are amenable to being >> stuffed into code or the commits associated with them. A dvcs is great and >> all, but unless one is working in a silo, online resources are all but >> mandatory. > > In a very strict sense you're right, but consider that for anyone > doing fast iterative development the need to go hit a website is a > huge slowdown : at least in most of the world :). You're suggesting that it's possible to do _fast_ iterative development on a distributed system of immense and largely undocumented complexity (like openstack)? I'd like to be working on the code you're working on! ;) m. > > So - while I agree that it's something to strive for, I think we > should invert it and say 'not having everything in the repo is > something we should permit occasional exceptions to'. > > -Rob > > -- > Robert Collins <rbtcoll...@hp.com> > Distinguished Technologist > HP Converged Cloud > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
