GSoC2007 work

[Blair Zajac]

Mark Grimes wrote:
> On 6/4/2007, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh at brierdr.com> wrote:
>> On Jun 1, 2007, at 11:43 AM, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote:
>>
>>> 	Again, many reasons to move GSoC work to branches and very little
>>> to have it happen right on trunk, in my opinion. I'll make the move
>>> if no one presents a case against it, so please speak up if you feel
>>> you have valid arguments against moving to branches. Thanks!
>> I object.  I'm completely in agreement with James - the SoC
>> contributors shouldn't be treated any differently than other
>> contributors (lest we create 2nd class citizens in what is otherwise
>> supposed to be an open project, regardless of how someone gets
>> here).   A branch also isn't a quarantine mechanism to be arbitrarily
>> placed on a contributor* - it's an organizational tool to be used in
>> certain situations which depend ENTIRELY on the types of changes in
>> question.   That should be left to the discretion of the contributor.
>>
>> Artificially constraining things to branches is also generally the
>> first step in ensuring their decay and eventual death.  That's a
>> fairly strong argument against.
>>
>> - Jordan
>>
>> * Yes, I'm also familiar with the "untrustworthy contributor"
>> scenario, but the solution there still isn't a branch, it's a
>> committer proxy.)
> 
> Subversion does not currently support merge tracking (without svk), so
> this makes cherry picking a micromanagement burden and probably weighs
> in somewhat on the branching stigma as well.  

Not true.  There is svnmerge.py, which makes this very easy:

http://www.orcaware.com/svn/wiki/Svnmerge.py

It supports cherry picking and already has most of the feature set that 
1.5 will have.

I would recommend using svnmerge.py to manage feature branches and it's 
easy to keep development on a branch that may break trunk.  We use it 
all the time at work.

Regards,
Blair

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