From kde-core-devel Wed Aug 22 18:19:47 2007 From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Cl=E1udio_da_Silveira_Pinheiro?= Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:19:47 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: clarification on git, central repositories and commit access lists Message-Id: <200708221519.48345.taupter () gmail ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=118785631007148 Em Qua 22 Ago 2007, Aaron J. Seigo escreveu: > On Wednesday 22 August 2007, you wrote: > it would be nice to have at least one release cycle where we can stop > fetishizing over our tools and actually write some software, something we > haven't really be able to do for a couple of years now thanks to the > various changes (svn, cmake, qt4..). moving to git will also likely impact > negatively the productivity of that given cycle and we will innevitably > lose some contributors who can't be bothered to follow us on that > transition. Agreed completely. I'm not really a very active developer last months, and even less with so much workflow, API, build-system, and VCS changes to absorb, while real life issues claim my attention everytime. Sometimes it just feels a search for a holy grail of an environment that we'll not really attain, and the multiple transitions will take suck a hassle and be so painful that less commited contributors (like me, not because of lack of interest, but because of lack of time/resources) will not stay up-to-date to the last trend. CVS to SVN, automake to unsermake to cmake were completely justifiable for performance/flexibility issues, but I really don't know what real benefit would git bring to the average KDE developer. Really. Call me dumb, call me names, say I'm not representative of the majority of the KDE development community, but in my humble opinion, we should settle with the current (good enough) environment for at least one or two years to get things done. We're already doing a big push with big changes for KDE4, and a period without so much turbulence for the less gifted contributors might be benefical. Please let's not look for a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.