[Phpwiki-talk] Re: Wiki spam and the future of phpwiki

[Matthew P. <mp...@he...>]

On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 08:22:19PM +0200, Arnaud Fontaine wrote:
> Matthew Palmer a =E9crit :
> > You're crying out for a distributed development model.  GNU Arch
> > (unpleasant UI notwithstanding) can provide all of the features you're
> > after.  Basically, one (or more!) people maintains a blessed "releases"
> > branch, which merges bits and pieces from other contributors as they
> > write and test them.  Other people can cherry-pick changes from people
> > as they like.  It's an incredibly powerful model for development;
> > unfortunately, it has the downside of tending to melt peoples' brains a
> > bit at first, especially if they've been suckling from the CVS teat for
> > too long (I speak from experience; my brain got melted).
>=20
> OMG !!! I love learning new things on sunday afternoon !!
> Thank's a lot, Matthew ! I've been looking for this for years (not
> actively, I admit ... still using some ugly homebrew script to rsync cvs
> trees) and it was just there, sitting on my gnu linux box !
>=20
> I found 2 deb packages implementing GNU Arch : tla and bazaar. Any
> experience with them ?

Yes, with both.  tla is the "original" implementation, while bazaar is a
branch of tla (from Canonical, the people behind Ubuntu) to improve the user
experience of Arch for the common user.  I'd recommend bazaar, it's just th=
at
much nicer to work with.  A lot of the documentation out there is
tla-specific, though, so it's a bit of a tradeoff in that respect.

- Matt