Tom Lord <lord@regexps.com> writes:
> First, saying "drastic" makes a presumption that may very well turn
> out to be false. I don't see how either of us can tell how far this
> would take you off your current path unless we actually think it
> through. If you can not, now and again, stop to rethink -- then there
> is something organizationally broken on your end.
:-)
Why the smiley? Because anyone who's watched Subversion from the
beginning has seen us stop and rethink many things.
Successful projects strike a balance between marching blindly ahead
according to The Plan, and redesigning so often that the project never
matures. We've all seen more free software projects fail than
survive, and though I have no hard evidence for it, my own experience
is that they die as often from overeager redesign and scope expansion
as from failure to be flexible.
Subversion strikes a pretty good balance between these two, and that's
why it's useable software with a flourishing development community
today.
Naturally, every time Subversion gets somewhere, even more delicious
destinations will become visible on the distant horizon. But that
doesn't mean we should immediately head for them, without bothering to
secure the ground we've already arrived at.
-K
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Received on Thu Oct 10 23:20:31 2002