> What Greg is objecting to, I think, is the idea that A's monetary
> valuation of a feature F should influence the other developers in
> prioritizing F.
I think that's too abstract. You have to look at it on a case by case
basis.
In the case of optimization, I think it's completely predictable that
the "ideal" svn, many years out, has lots of swappable modules
providing various performance/size/complexity/admin-cost trade-offs.
That's just a good thing to do that the architecture is designed for.
I think that specific area is ripe for commercialization. People can
pay a premium to get their favorite sweet spots optimized first; that
premium can fund, i dunno -- maybe a democratic or anarchic
community. Whatever. The community, at the very least, gets the
benefit of all of that optimization work that would eventually be
needed anyway.
A sort of non-sequitor: it didn't occur to me until last night, but
getting an svn repository to host an arch repository should be utterly
trivial -- a couple of weeks work, at most. (I can't really afford to
do that work myself, at the moment.) It's just a matter of
translating a small subset of FTP operations into svn operations --
nothing more.
You'd get, as a free side effect, a (good) form of distributed
repositories, "for free". People could write pretty simple scripts
that convert on-demand between parts of the svn tree holding arch
global revisions and parts holding ordinary full source trees. I'd be
willing to say (for what little its worth) that that's a reasonable
1.0 target for both arch and svn.
I think the general idea of providing a workflow-oriented interface to
projects, plus the "instant" distribution features svn would get, are
likely to put a whole new light on client design -- and since that
could be tricky, postpone it till after 1.0. (And advertise the 1.0s
accordingly.)
-t
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