Hi Pierre,
On 25/09/2019 14:36, Pierre Tardy wrote:
As a community, our number one goal is for Git to continue to be the best
distributed version control system. At minimum, it should continue to be
the most widely-used DVCS.
I'd rather we stated our goal in terms of what problems we are trying
to address rather than accolades we want sent our way. E.g. "Our goal
is to make developers more productive by providing them increasingly
useful version control software".
Agreed.
And why restrict on DVCS?
Isn't it admitted that the distributed version control is nowadays
much better in term of software productivity?
Is there some use cases that "traditional" centralized VCS are better
on, and on which we gave up as a goal?
Regards,
Pierre
As an old engineer, I do remember and still see the vast range of areas
where the Git DVCS is probably never going to help because it doesn't
solve the engineering issues that regular VCS (e.g. Mil-Std-498) have
solved for generations...
What modern computing, Linux style, has is:
- Perfect replication, at near zero cost or time.
- Line oriented, Source code based basis.
- Computational efficiency, at near zero cost or time.
- Crypto-algorithms at strength.
If we go outside those areas we are less and less likely to manage.
(digital video? Every binary to be serialised? bit rot resilience?
traceability?).
We do have some Elephants in the room regarding What the community is
about (limits and goals), as distinct from How we conduct ourselves
(CoC), but that probably should be separated out.
