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LPC: Development model diversity

Posted Sep 9, 2011 21:08 UTC (Fri) by pphaneuf (guest, #23480)
Parent article: LPC: Development model diversity

I'd be interested in a description of how Parrot (mis)uses Git.

I searched around a bit, but couldn't find a description of their development model, if anyone would care to describe it quickly or link to a page that does, I would be quite grateful!

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LPC: Development model diversity

Posted Sep 10, 2011 2:35 UTC (Sat) by allison (guest, #56202) [Link] (3 responses)

https://github.com/parrot/parrot/blob/master/docs/project...

LPC: Development model diversity

Posted Sep 12, 2011 18:46 UTC (Mon) by daglwn (guest, #65432) [Link] (1 responses)

That simply describes the process, not what's wrong with it. I too am curious and there's far too much detailed text there for me to immediately sort out what's "wrong."

LPC: Development model diversity

Posted Sep 14, 2011 4:54 UTC (Wed) by ssmith32 (subscriber, #72404) [Link]

>there's far too much detailed text there for me to immediately sort out what's "wrong."

Exactly ;)

Re: What's Wrong With Parrot?

Posted Sep 29, 2011 6:14 UTC (Thu) by ldo (guest, #40946) [Link]

It seems to me a lot of extra complexity is introduced by the way they use Signed-off-by lines. Theyre trying to use these to record who accepted the pull request into the mainline. Is this even necessary?

How do the Linux kernel folks handle this? (Obvious question I ask every time somebody claims to have a problem using Git.) It seems to me they dont bother with this information, they only record the contributor of the patch, not who accepted it.