Comments on: Why Drizzle Will Succeed http://www.pythian.com/blogs/1183/why-drizzle-will-succeed News and views from Pythian DBAs Tue, 6 Jan 2009 05:49:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Jay Pipes http://www.pythian.com/blogs/1183/why-drizzle-will-succeed#comment-265183 Jay Pipes Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:41:54 +0000 http://www.pythian.com/blogs/1183/why-drizzle-will-succeed#comment-265183 Hehe, as one of the ones with commit access, I couldn't agree with you and Brian more. The *only* times I have committed to trunk is to merge other people's code after merging and build/testing locally. Commits to trunk should only be that: merges from developer branches (Brian? ;) ). It *is* drudgery work, but it's absolutely necessary to keep commits to trunk to a minimum. Development happens in branches outside of trunk and trunk is merely the merging of development outside trunk into trunk once a branches' code tests and builds cleanly... -jay Hehe, as one of the ones with commit access, I couldn’t agree with you and Brian more. The *only* times I have committed to trunk is to merge other people’s code after merging and build/testing locally. Commits to trunk should only be that: merges from developer branches (Brian? ;) ). It *is* drudgery work, but it’s absolutely necessary to keep commits to trunk to a minimum. Development happens in branches outside of trunk and trunk is merely the merging of development outside trunk into trunk once a branches’ code tests and builds cleanly…

-jay

]]> By: Don Seiler http://www.pythian.com/blogs/1183/why-drizzle-will-succeed#comment-264642 Don Seiler Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:11:38 +0000 http://www.pythian.com/blogs/1183/why-drizzle-will-succeed#comment-264642 I wholeheartedly agree re commit access. As a former maintainer for Gentoo Linux, I had commit access to the entire portage tree. Sure, there was a sense of elite power, but that lasted all of maybe 1 week. Once you start having to deal with upstream changes and user-submitted patches and maintaining stable vs unstable versions, it becomes a chore. You quickly become the servant more than the master of the project. At least, that is how I saw my role progressing. I wholeheartedly agree re commit access. As a former maintainer for Gentoo Linux, I had commit access to the entire portage tree. Sure, there was a sense of elite power, but that lasted all of maybe 1 week. Once you start having to deal with upstream changes and user-submitted patches and maintaining stable vs unstable versions, it becomes a chore. You quickly become the servant more than the master of the project.

At least, that is how I saw my role progressing.

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