Re: [Monotone-devel] Projects using monotone?

[Jean Pierre LeJacq]

Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 06:57 +0200, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
>
> > I have been thinking of finally moving some of my CVS-managed projects
> > to monotone.  For one of them, I was asked what other projects are
> > using monotone, as some kind of "proof of maturity" (I know, it's not
> > regarded as mature enough for production according to some.  I don't
> > entirely agree).
> >
> > So, I'd like to know, what other projects are using monotone?  And
> > don't restrict yourself to free software projects.

We're using monotone to develop software based on cocoon 
(http://cocoon.apache.org/) and lenya (http://lenya.apache.org). We 
manually sychronize with the SVN repositories the two projects use. Both 
are fairly large projects.  Our observations:

* monotone is quite slow on certain operations. Committing a change to 
the cocoon branch can take 5 min on a beefy server.

* We've had problems with merging though this is much improved. We 
sometimes have to merge by hand.

* Developing decent SCM policies based on the monotone approach takes 
some time if your team is used to something like CVS. For example, what 
constitutes a good component model for monotone? In CVS we used modules. 
We're experimenting with branches in monotone for this but still aren't 
sure if it we have the best approach.

* Not having monotone integrated into an IDE turns many developers off. 
Many of our developers like the Eclipse CVS integration and find it 
painfully to have to use a CLI like monotone.

In the end we're using it mainly because it shows so much promise. Its 
still rough going sometimes.

--
JP