Re: [Mondo-devel] Subversion instead of CVS; delaying Mondo v1.7?

[Joshua O. <or...@ge...>]

On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 10:59:40AM -0500 or thereabouts, Hugo Rabson wrote:
> I'm thinking of switching from CVS to Subversion for Mondo v1.9 / Mindi 
> v1.1 (when we get there). The switch from CVS to Subversion won't be 
> anything like as painful as the switch from _nothing_ to CVS was :) but 
> still, I want to see if anyone (devteam or users) would have a problem with 
> using Subversion instead of CVS.

I'm familiar w/CVS; not so w/Subversion. Also, CVS is already installed on
way more PCs than Subversion is.

> 
> I'm also thinking of keeping Mondo v1.7x (the development branch) as just 
> that, until Mindi.pl is definitely ready. There's nothing particularly 
> wrong with Mindi v0.9x but Joshua Oreman has already written a Perl-based 
> replacement which is cleaner and faster. If anyone can think of a good 
> reason not to drop "my" Mindi v0.9x mindi (shell script) and replace it 
> with Joshua's Perl script, please speak up now.

Not in a position to do so :-)

> 
> Finally, I'm thinking of changing the way this project is run. I think we 
> need a steering committee and I don't think I should be the one to chair 
> it. I wrote most of Mondo, so I've got my own agenda and my own ego - er, I 
> mean, priorities - which might get in the way of said committee. Perhaps a 
> user, someone with no technical knowledge of the innards of Mondo but with 
> a background in I.T., would like to chair it? If everyone's agreed that we 
> need said committee, let's set up a poll in the forum, let people set out 
> their manifesto, then we'll vote for the chair. Comments?

I don't think we need it. I think you're a great leader of the project and I
wouldn't really want to see someone without a technical Mondo background running
the project. You wrote the code; you're in the best position to maintain it.
Nobody else could possibly know the code the way you do unless they rewrote it :-)
Also, it makes sense for the maintainer(s) to be able to fix bugs! People can't do
that if they don't understand the code.

-- Josh

> 
> -Hugo
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