On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 02:46:57PM -0400, Karl Fogel wrote:
> Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de> writes:
> > One additional proposal has been filed:
> >
> > * revision analyzer (Gang-Han Lee)
> >
> > The proposal has been posted to the dev list, too. It is about representing
> > statistical information about commits graphically. I would not consider
> > this task part of Subversion itself. The proposal does not explain
> > how this task would be integrated into the Subversion core either.
>
> The "core" vs "external" division is merely about code modularity -- it
> says nothing about relevant a given project is to actual users.
>
> It's fine for an SoC project to result in a separate tool that works
> *with* Subversion. The driving criterion here should be "Will this
> project result in something that Subversion users want to use?" not
> "Will this project result in something checked into the subversion/
> subdirectory of our repository?" Only the former matters to users!
>
> So if it's something we _can_ mentor, and it would result in a better
> Subversion user experience, then IMHO it qualifies.
OK, that makes sense.
I won't object in any way if someone wants to mentor this project, of course.
Stefan
Received on 2009-04-03 20:55:21 CEST