[Adium-devl] Version Control

[Evan Schoenberg]

On Feb 5, 2008, at 2:11 AM, Colin Barrett <timber at lava.net> wrote:

> On Feb 4, 2008, at 9:43 PM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:
>
>> On Feb 4, 2008, at 1:55 PM, Augie Fackler wrote:
>>
>>> One question I have is do you want all commits to be with  
>>> @adiumx.com
>>> addresses, or should we use something else?
>>
>> I think yes - but not because of a ridiculous security policy that
>> "adiumx.com = trusted".  Rather, folks committing with authorization
>> of the Adium project should do so using an @adiumx.com address to
>> demonstrate clear affiliation.  This allows for the possibility at
>> some point in the future of committers primarily associated with  
>> other
>> projects or whose commits are distributed with the repository but not
>> part of an officially accepted changeset.
>
> I think that's very confusing and non-obvious.
>
> I don't understand your use case -- if they are distributed with
> "adium-central", how are they not officially accepted? If we get into
> that situation, people can publish their own clones, I guess? I'm
> really not sure what you're talking about.
>

Peter pointed out one use case - folks who might have commit access  
but have primary association with another organization, a difference  
we choose to make clear: a pidgin developer (with access, probably  
enforced only by verbal agreement, to the Purple plugin), an MIT  
person whose involvement is limited to Zephyr, etc...

Another is for patches. I don't know about this system, but mtn allows  
the committee to specify a searate author for the change (the patch  
writer).  Making our affiliations clear keeps -that- clear.

Another is for distributed vcs. This is what I was talking about  
before. A repo (say, by Apple, where they maintain a branch of Adium  
which uses iChat's backend for AIM) may have a branch be pushed to our  
rep with our permission. It's useful to tell at a glance that -these-  
changes came from outside while -those- were made by an Adiym developer.

On the other hand, I see no disadvantages. What do you see?

-Evan




> -Colin
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