[Adium-devl] Version Control

[Evan Schoenberg]

As with the switch to a new version control system itself, I don't see  
this as a "lead" issue unless we're truly at an impasse and someone  
has to cast a deciding vote. This, of course, is pretty minor compared  
to the switch itself - and I'm happy we've made that decision without  
fruitless argument.

The point about a person's identity "changing" over time does resonate  
for me. On the other hand, not needing to 'just know' or to look at a  
list of developers to determine the affiliation of a changeset's  
author seems like a stronger win to me.

I can't argue passionately about the issue. Peter's suggestion is fine  
- Use the email you want. I plan to use my adiumx.com address for  
adium commits and encourage developers proud of their association to  
do the same.

Cheers,
Evan

On Feb 7, 2008, at 12:04 PM, "Eric Richie" <edr1084 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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