On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Quite frankly, I'm a little dubious about how critical peer2peer really is, for pretty much any use case. Most of the time, I can grab the base "reference" tree and drop it on my laptop before I go off the grid and have to rely on EDGE or some other slow networking technology. yes... but if you meet up with other people, where you have a fast LAN segment or set up your own private wifi mesh, are you able to a) sync up the mailing lists using git b) sync up the project's bug-list using git c) sync up the wiki (if there is one) using git d) seamlessly continue to appear to be talking (with the people you're meeting) on the "mailing lists" as if you actually had a decent connection to the server e) report, comment on, change the status of and share bugs between all of the people you're meeting as if you had a decent connection to the bugtracker server... you see how it's not just about "The Source Code"? sure, yes, you or anyone else _on their own_ can do code development, isolated from everyone else and the internet... example: i went to europython, and met the moinmoin developers (nice people). i wanted to help with the sprint after hours: it turned out that we'd got the day wrong, so we then went "oh well, let's find somewhere to do a bit of hacking", and _immediately_ the discussion turned into "how we can all of us find internet connectivity". i said that i had a 3G USB but i didn't have ndiswrapper installed for the bcm4328 on my laptop, so i couldn't offer a mesh; someone else said that their laptop's WIFI didn't even _do_ master-mode, and we then had a nice discussion about various little network routers that ran openwrt and lamented the fact that none of us had brought one along. needless to say, we didn't do any hacking :) l. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html