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Large projects and decentralized development

Large projects and decentralized development

Posted Aug 24, 2007 9:06 UTC (Fri) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164)
Parent article: Large projects and decentralized development

Thanx for the article. I did follow the discussion on the mailinglist, as it was interesting and informed. It seems, even though there still are some issues to work out, the most important problems are more social than technical. Settling down, as Aaron suggested, is a good move - KDE has been in flux, changing it's core technologies for the last 2 years. Now it's time to write some code. But sure, there is already some experimentation with Git and the old adagio of 'who codes, decides' still goes. Just like the transition to CMAKE, which became the defacto standard in KDE, even though at first everyone thought it would be SCons...


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