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Re: Coping with the pull-before-you-push model

From
Joshua Jensen <jjensen@workspacewhiz.com>
Date
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
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Message 14 of 14 in “Coping with the pull-before-you-push model”
  1. Joshua JensenSep 9, 2010
  2. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonSep 9, 2010
  3. Joshua JensenSep 9, 2010
  4. Jon SeymourSep 10, 2010
  5. Jeff KingSep 10, 2010
  6. Joshua JensenSep 14, 2010
  7. Jeff KingSep 14, 2010
  8. Avery PennarunSep 14, 2010
  9. David BrownSep 15, 2010
  10. Theodore TsoSep 14, 2010
  11. Joshua JensenSep 14, 2010
  12. Eugene SajineSep 14, 2010
  13. Ted Ts'oSep 14, 2010
  14. Joshua JensenSep 14, 2010

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