FW: [ODE] From unstable to trunk...

[Gary R. Van Sickle]

I don't see this on the list, might have been accidentally replied only
directly to me:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: J. Perkins [mailto:starkos at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 7:08 AM
> To: Gary R. Van Sickle
> Subject: Re: [ODE] From unstable to trunk...
> 
> On 7/1/05, Gary R. Van Sickle <g.r.vansickle at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> > Agreed and agreed, if "a lot more love" == "more active 
> maintainership".
> > With an active maintainer(s), the rest of the stuff tends to sort 
> > itself out, mainly because the maintainers just decide what 
> they want 
> > to do and do it.  I've never seen it work the other way 
> around, e.g. 
> > suddenly a dozen maintainers pop up because a project 
> switched from cvs to subversion.
> 
> Also agree, BUT assuming that one or more active maintainers 
> don't appear out of the woodwork, switching to a system that 
> makes it easier to submit, find, and apply patches would help 
> development.
> 

Assuming that one or more active maintainers don't appear out of the
woodwork, none of that matters.  You still need somebody to push the button.

Now luckily, I'm assuming that Adam is at least one active maintainer, so
the problem appears to be on its way to being solved, with absolutely no
change in project infrastructure necessary.

> But this has been all talk and no action.

Yes, I believe that's one of the stages that I mentioned all such
discussions go through in a previous post ;-).

> Does anyone object 
> to moving to Subversion?

I do, on the basis that the version control system used by the ODE project
is not the problem, nor has it been shown to be in any way a contributor to
the problem.  Said problem is lack of active maintainership.  Changing
version control systems will accomplish nothing except a change in version
control systems.

> Does anyone object to using branches 
> to track patches?

I do.  Apart from being only a few mils away from sticky tags on the
Unbelievable Headache scale... well, I guess there's no second part to this
sentence, that's the reason.

> If not, I will research tigris this weekend and try to scope the move.
> 

I do not discourage this.  I do however predict it will ultimately lead to
no changes in the ODE project.

> Jason

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Gary R. Van Sickle