[Adium-devl] Version Control

[Eric Richie]

On Feb 7, 2008 9:43 AM, Stephen Holt <stephen.holt at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.


I suppose the other side of this would be the permanence of one versus the
other.  For instance, if I committed from my edr1084 at gmail.com account but
then decided that I should finally move everything over to
eric.richie at gmail.com, there's nothing that ties the two together as being
from the same person, whereas if I just always committed from
eric at adiumx.com it wouldn't be an issue.

I think the problem is that both sides more or less have the
same argument and as such there probably won't be that one single solution
that suits everyone.  I'm of the opinion that we should just pick one and
stick with it whether everyone is in favor or not, because I'm not seeing
this an an issue worthy of a never-ending debate.  I would be inclined to go
with Evan's decision as project lead but... that's not for me to decide.

-Eric
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