[Adium-devl] Version Control

[Stephen Holt]

As someone who still likes to watch, but doesn't have much time to  
actively develop anymore, I'd like to throw my $0.02 in here

On Feb 7, 2008, at 12:21 AM, Peter Hosey wrote:
>
> The answer to question 1 is mostly yes: Names are not enough to  
> identify people. There are many sets of humans with the exact same  
> name. We use usernames with SVN, but usernames don't scale to the  
> DVCS world, where anybody can pick and use their own username.  
> (Imagine if somebody named Charlie Barrett sends us a patch.) Email  
> addresses work as an identifier.
>

That, if anything, seems to be an argument against having @adiumx.com  
addresses.  If the goal is to have a global identifier, who's to say  
that "Evan Schoenberg <evan at adiumx.com>" and "Evan Schoenberg <evan at pidgin.im 
 >"  are the same person?  Whereas if I keep "Stephen Holt <stephen.holt at gmail.com 
 >"  I can contribute to many projects under the same moniker at my  
leisure, everyone knows who I am, and my contributions are fully  
transparent.  Organization is good and all, but lets not fool  
ourselves; we're closer to a bazaar than a cathedral.

IMHO, this is a solution in search of a problem.

--Steve Holt