[Opensim-dev] Cathedral 0, Bazaar 1

[BlueWall Slade]

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I was pretty excited to see the project SCM move to git. There is the
potential to have explosive development growth and innovation.



On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Morgaine
<morgaine.dinova at googlemail.com>wrote:

> The recent thread about "Leaving Opensim" highlights that not everyone has
> yet absorbed the impact of recent changes in SCM.
>
> While it's true that the Opensim Core group still operates partly as a
> Cathedral (because they anoint *people* to join them, instead of picking
> code contributions on the merits of the code), the project's SCM moved from
> SVN to Git a little while ago, and this brings about a profound change.
> It's not merely a different SCM tool, but a change from centralized to
> distributed code management, and this brings Opensim almost entirely into
> the Bazaar model.  (Non-programmers may want to see
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/<http://www.catb.org/%7Eesr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/>
> if this is new.)
>
> With Git, everyone's repository for the project has equal standing, and
> anyone can clone their own repository, make changes, and advertise their
> improvements.  Approval by the Core team is not required, and nothing
> important distinguishes Opensim Core's own repository from any other.  The
> system is truly distributed.
>
> As a result, there is no need for anyone to "leave Opensim" owing to
> divergence of views or direction.  Just clone your own repo and let people
> know about it.  If your contributions are useful, people will merge your
> changes into their own clones of the Core repo, or will follow your branch,
> or will clone your own repo wholesale.  It's like old-fashioned forking but
> without the hassles of forking, and with much reduced chasing of tail
> lights. ;-)
>
> In time, I expect that the Opensim Core developer group will be replaced by
> a Steering Group, perhaps once version 1.0 has been reached and a public
> Opensim Foundation has been created.  The steering group could select and
> test well-regarded public contributions from a large number of community
> developer Git repositories, picked on the basis of consistency and community
> needs.  Then the Bazaar will truly have arrived.
>
> But we're almost there anyway, because the tools already allow it.  There
> is no need to leave, just join the Git bazaar. :-)
>
> Morgaine.
>
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