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Re: "Producting Open Source Software" book and distributed SCMs

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
May 1, 2007, 22:27 UTC
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> And the nice thing about this is that if some subsystem needs to make 
> trivial changes to another subsystem, they don't need to ask for 
> permission. They just do them, AND THEN THEY EXPLAIN THEM! And if they 
> really were trivial and obvious (and that's almost always the case), they 
> just get pulled normally. No special dispensation.

Actually Karl Fogel wrote in "Producting Open Source Software" that he recommends and uses 'soft' partial commit access; it means that committing is restricted to a part of project for some by a guideline, but is not enforced by the tool (by SCM).

P.S. I recommend actually reading the book (at http://producingoss.com) instead of relying on my understanding of it.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
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