Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact general-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list general@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 12731 invoked from network); 14 Jan 2000 05:47:52 -0000 Received: from mail1.sirius.com (205.134.253.131) by 63.211.145.10 with SMTP; 14 Jan 2000 05:47:52 -0000 Received: from isdn-chakotay (46-78-127-216.ip.sirius.com [216.127.78.46]) by mail1.sirius.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with SMTP id VAA50693 for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:10:56 -0800 (PST) Sender: jhunter@sirius.com Message-ID: <387E9463.6231@acm.org> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:07:28 -0800 From: Jason Hunter X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.03C-SGI (X11; I; IRIX 6.2 IP22) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: general@jakarta.apache.org Subject: Re: RESET: Proposal for Revolutionaries and Evolutionaries References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit costin@costin.dnt.ro wrote: > > > 1) Any committer has the right to go start a revolution. > > +1 on everything, but I would like to add - "in a separate whiteboard > directory or if not possible in a branch" > > Motivation - if needed: > > ... > > It also mean you'll not have to be an expert in CVS I agree with Costin that the downside of the proposal is that any revolutionary must be an expert in CVS. To help with this, we should make sure that there exists a detailed document describing how to manage multiple branches with CVS. We can call it "A Revolutionist's Guide". :-) I'm not sure if I agree with Costin's proposal for same-branch different-package development. I'm worried that won't scale well and may cause dependency problems if people aren't careful. But I do like its simplicity! If I were working alone that's how I'd manage my own revolution (and how James recently said he did his with Tomcat). -jh-