Re: Coping with the pull-before-you-push model
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Joshua Jensen <jjensen@workspacewhiz.com>
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- Sep 14, 2010, 04:37 UTC
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----- Original Message ----- From: Jon Seymour Date: 9/9/2010 11:35 PM
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>> This _is_ compelling, but even if it would work within the company I work >> for, it is such a dramatic shift in workflow that I am certain it could not >> be done in one fell swo >> > The big difference between commercial work and open source projects > like git and linux is that the latter have just one constraint - > quality whereas the former also have budgets and schedules to worry > about. Unintegrated crap code has cost the open source project almost > nothing. Commercial enterprises, on the other hand, pay lots of money > for people to develop code whether it is crap or otherwise. The idea > of leaving expensive code unintegrated causes management paroxysms of > concern that are hard to ignore - a tool that blindly integrates crap > code automatically is a soothing balm for such people. Hence the > resistance to tools like git that encourage a maintainer role and, > implicit in that, the possibility of review that might result in crap > code being exposed for what it is.
My apologies for the late response. I'm not ignoring this. I am trying to process it in the context of my organization as I establish the workflows we'll be using. I may have some follow up questions soon.
Josh