Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Justin Erenkrantz
> <justin_at_erenkrantz.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 4:28 PM, David Glasser <glasser_at_davidglasser.net> wrote:
>> > My opinion? The Subversion project shouldn't spend any more time
>> > trying to make Subversion a better version control tool for non-huge
>> > open source projects. Subversion is already decent for that task, and
>> > other tools have greater potential than it. We need to focus on
>> > making Subversion the best tool for organizations whose users need to
>> > interact with repositories in complex ways, like:
>>
>> That's actually a pretty cool mission statement for us to focus on.
>> It's not quite the direction we set out for initially, but going
>> forward, this sort of resonates as to where we've found ourselves in
>> the spectrum of SCM tools. -- justin
>>
>
> We have been groping around for a new mission statement for a year or
> two, and this is a pretty compelling one (unless we decide we want to
> become fully decentralized.).
Even if we don't go fully decentralized, having the ability to go completely
offline with a sync of a portion of the repository you need for the checkout you
have would be nice. So you could do log, blame other operations on a plane.
Blair
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Received on 2008-04-23 18:19:14 CEST