notmuch-next branch

[Servilio Afre Puentes]

On 11 October 2010 15:01, Jameson Rollins <jrollins at finestructure.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 21:45:47 +0300, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I think many people agree notmuch mainline has been rather slow. So
>> I'm proposing to have notmuch-next branch, either on github or
>> gitorious (please vote).
>>
>> More than one person should have write access to this repo, but some
>> guidelines should be in place. I propose that patches should be
>> signed-off-by at least another person in the mailing list before
>> pushing. It would be nice if this is how the mainline branch works,
>> but we don't need to wait for that to happen. We need to vote on who
>> are the people to have write access.
>
> I think this generally sounds like a fine idea, but I don't see why we
> need a single central repo that multiple people need access to.  The
> whole point of git is to allow for distributed development without need
> for a central repo.
>
> In this case, folks can just merge the patches they're interested in
> into a "next" branch in their own personal repos, publish them where
> ever they want, and then every body can just keep their "next" branches
> synced with each other.  As consensus is reached, the next release will
> emerge.

+1 and maintaining a list of these repos in the wiki ;)

Servilio