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Robin H. Johnson posted on Fri, 03 Jul 2015 20:22:25 +0000 as excerpted: |
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> On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 03:39:31PM +0200, Manuel Rüger wrote: |
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>> Are there still any plans to use a code review system like gerrit [...] |
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> [T]he general discussion was that a code review system was not in the |
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> immediate future... |
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I believe the general sense of previous discussion was that the git |
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switch has been delayed too long already, and while code review, etc, |
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might be nice, in this case it's the perfect being the enemy of the good, |
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in that it would likely result in another half-decade of gentoo on cvs |
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while these /additional/ things were worked out, and that was simply |
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judged to be an unacceptable tradeoff to make. |
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Which I (strongly!) agree with. The switch to git won't be perfect, but |
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we /can/ do it now, and we should. If code review, etc, is to happen, |
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once we're on git it can happen incrementally, but we're not losing |
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anything we have already by not doing it with the switch to git, while |
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just the switch to git alone is already a huge improvement, bringing us |
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into the current era, at least. And there's always going to be one more |
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thing we could change to make things better... at the cost of putting off |
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the big switch yet again... ultimately indefinitely, letting the perfect |
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be the enemy of the good, to the benefit of the otherwise generally |
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agreed to be unacceptable status quo. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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