Re: Towards a native-FS-backed filesystem

kfogel@collab.net writes:

> Are you saying you want the abstraction part to happen on a branch, or
> Greg's new backend, or both?

The abstraction should happen on a branch. By and large, that is the
part of the change expected to most interfere with the existing
codebase.

> I was only saying that I'd prefer Greg's changes to happen on trunk,
> since I don't think they'll have many points of interference with
> other trunk code (thanks to the abstraction).

Ah, I see. As to Greg's specific part of the change, I don't guess I
care where the work happens (so long as it happens in the public
eye).

As an aside (not directed only at Greg): These little weekend code
bombs might get folks all giddy for a few moments, but when the time
comes to support that code, it generally means that exactly one person
(Greg himself) has any idea what's going on there. This is not to the
benefit of the development community. Ideas developed and committed
piecemeal to the repository can be more easily digested over time by
everyone -- we all get to see not just the final functionality, but
the implementation decisions and steps, successes and failures, made
along the way. There's a wealth of wisdom to be gained by keeping the
process transparent in this way.

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Received on Tue Mar 30 22:40:55 2004