[Monotone-devel] Re: Project Management

[Graydon Hoare]

Thomas Keller wrote:

> In the end this is a software project about distributed version control,
> and maybe that kind of "decentral, distributed project management" which
> happens at the moment is part of the nature of this project (and
> explicitly wanted), so one might forgive me if I ask for a structure in
> this regard, but my inner feeling keeps telling me that its needed.

Perhaps it's needed. I don't know. I don't even really have time or 
inclination to keep up with the patch flow. I figure people will fix 
things that bother them and leave the rest alone. Occasionally I open up 
files to see how they've changed. If I don't like what I see I suggest 
or make changes. Likewise if some part of its behavior annoys me.

Otherwise I don't see much reason to impose structure on how people 
spend their volunteer time. Especially if I have to spend some of *my* 
volunteer time in order to impose it; who wants to volunteer to be a 
manager? Maybe you see monotone as a much larger project than I do. I 
just want a reliable tool for a bunch of VC tasks CVS falls down on.

To your objections to the automate interface: do you think it would help 
for automate commands to have basic_io *and* line-based output formats? 
Say, selectable with a command-line flag? We could possibly insist that 
all commands provide both, or maybe even make some sort of output 
helpers that can format the same data 2 ways.

-graydon