Stop Distributed Version Control Diaspora

http://www.kev009.com/wp/2010/10/stop-distributed-version-control-diaspora/

by kev009 • 16 years ago

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kev0092• 16 years ago

The idea is to keep the information open, free, and interchangeable as information is what these sites add. We've had public VCS repos and web interfaces for ages.

moe2• 16 years ago

And a pony.

I want a pony.

Edit: Give those guys a break. They're struggling just to get the fundamentals right. This is not the time for scope creep.

kev0092• 16 years ago

I don't buy this excuse. Atlassian is anything but struggling. github and gitorious have an impressive array of enterprise customers. The longer this concept is postponed, the harder it will be to implement as similarities will diverge.

moe2• 16 years ago

Ha!

Your headline made me think you're asking for VCS stuff to be added to the diaspora project (the social network one).

It seems I misunderstood you.

Anyways and either way, this seems like a (proposed) solution looking for a problem. I'm an avid user of various VCS systems and have never felt a need to port my "followers" or such from one system to another. What exact problem are you looking to solve?

wccrawford• 16 years ago

Stopping it now would be very stupid for the exact same reasons listed: The cat is already out of the bag. If you don't allow collaboration now, you -guarantee- that any forks won't end up like the mainline.

alinhan• 16 years ago

I think ESR started ForgePlucker to tackle this problem. It's a project for saving "project state" from various project hosting sites. Here is the announcement: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1369

Stop Distributed Version Control Diaspora

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