From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
To: Pierre Tardy <tardyp@gmail.com>, Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Cc: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>,
"git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
"peff@peff.net" <peff@peff.net>,
Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>,
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
"gitster@pobox.com" <gitster@pobox.com>,
garimasigit@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [DISCUSSION] Growing the Git community
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 15:14:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b6835484-62a4-6f89-b6b1-f43afe794272@iee.email> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ+soVcmMwy7GgLcV-m1kNEsHYirHMQQeFuEYZanbCNUK4_zHg@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Pierre,
On 25/09/2019 14:36, Pierre Tardy wrote:
>>> As a community, our number one goal is for Git to continue to be the best
>>> distributed version control system. At minimum, it should continue to be
>>> the most widely-used DVCS.
>> I'd rather we stated our goal in terms of what problems we are trying
>> to address rather than accolades we want sent our way. E.g. "Our goal
>> is to make developers more productive by providing them increasingly
>> useful version control software".
>>
> Agreed.
> And why restrict on DVCS?
> Isn't it admitted that the distributed version control is nowadays
> much better in term of software productivity?
> Is there some use cases that "traditional" centralized VCS are better
> on, and on which we gave up as a goal?
>
> Regards,
> Pierre
As an old engineer, I do remember and still see the vast range of areas
where the Git DVCS is probably never going to help because it doesn't
solve the engineering issues that regular VCS (e.g. Mil-Std-498) have
solved for generations...
What modern computing, Linux style, has is:
- Perfect replication, at near zero cost or time.
- Line oriented, Source code based basis.
- Computational efficiency, at near zero cost or time.
- Crypto-algorithms at strength.
If we go outside those areas we are less and less likely to manage.
(digital video? Every binary to be serialised? bit rot resilience?
traceability?).
We do have some Elephants in the room regarding What the community is
about (limits and goals), as distinct from How we conduct ourselves
(CoC), but that probably should be separated out.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-25 14:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-19 16:30 [DISCUSSION] Growing the Git community Derrick Stolee
2019-09-19 17:34 ` Denton Liu
2019-09-19 20:43 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-09-19 22:26 ` Jeff King
2019-09-20 17:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-09-20 15:22 ` Garima Singh
2019-09-20 17:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-09-19 18:44 ` Klaus Sembritzki
2019-09-19 19:12 ` Klaus Sembritzki
2019-09-19 20:20 ` Klaus Sembritzki
2019-09-20 5:04 ` Klaus Sembritzki
2019-09-20 5:41 ` Klaus Sembritzki
2019-09-20 6:54 ` Klaus Sembritzki
2019-09-20 7:43 ` Klaus Sembritzki
2019-09-20 10:25 ` Klaus Sembritzki
2019-09-19 21:40 ` Mike Hommey
2019-09-23 21:28 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-10-01 15:03 ` Jakub Narebski
2019-09-19 22:16 ` Jeff King
2019-09-20 2:17 ` Derrick Stolee
2019-09-20 2:23 ` Jeff King
2019-09-19 22:21 ` Elijah Newren
2019-09-25 13:36 ` Pierre Tardy
2019-09-25 14:02 ` Derrick Stolee
2019-10-04 12:39 ` Jakub Narebski
2019-09-25 14:14 ` Philip Oakley [this message]
2019-10-04 10:48 ` Jakub Narebski
2019-11-12 18:45 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-11-12 20:01 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-11-13 6:45 ` Christian Couder
2019-11-13 15:06 ` Thomas Gummerer
2019-11-14 2:31 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-11-14 6:06 ` Jeff King
2019-11-15 4:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-11-14 6:08 ` Pratyush Yadav
2019-11-14 10:01 ` Thomas Gummerer
2019-09-20 10:48 ` Philip Oakley
2019-09-20 14:36 ` brian m. carlson
2019-09-20 15:16 ` Randall S. Becker
2019-10-04 14:27 ` Jakub Narebski
2019-09-20 15:20 ` Garima Singh
2019-09-20 17:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-09-20 18:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-09-23 12:36 ` Derrick Stolee
2019-09-23 21:46 ` Johannes Schindelin
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