Re: collaborating

In a message dated: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 08:55:45 PDT
Brian Behlendorf said:

>Coming back to the reality... maybe the best solutionn would be to create
>another mailing list @subversion.tigris.org. - and there we
>could have the long-term discussions about how to, well, build a truck out
>of Subversion parts, perhaps even evolve Subversion to be a truck *and* a
>small car. This would help keep clearly separate the development work for
>1.0 and the long-term thinking for building a distributed version of SVN,
>or even whether that's possible or not. That way we can use mail
>filtering to allow the 1.0 developers to be focused on 1.0 during the day,
>and follow the discussions about the future as they get a chance to.
>Others, who don't care about 1.0, can go wild. All I ask is that
>decisions about the future aren't made until 1.0 (at least) is out the
>door.
>
>Thoughts?

That sounds reasonable, especially if svn is as close to a 1.0
release as it's sounding.

It sounds like Tom has some very good, though ambitious, plans for
what the future should/could look like, and it would be ashame if it
were not to materialize. By the same token, many have made it clear
that CVS just isn't cutting it anymore and they *need* a replacement
soon.

With a new mailing list, svn 1.0 could continue on track, but Tom's
ideas could be discussed/ripped apart/re-aligned/whatever, *and*
he could start work on the project for 2.0 or 3.0, or where ever it's
decided all these great ideas fit best.

Sounds like a win-win situation to me.

-- 
Seeya,
Paul
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