Re: Coping with the pull-before-you-push model

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From: Jon Seymour
Date: 9/9/2010 11:35 PM

quoted

This _is_ compelling, but even if it would work within the company I work
for, it is such a dramatic shift in workflow that I am certain it could not
be done in one fell swo

The big difference between commercial work and open source projects
like git and linux is that the latter have just one constraint -
quality whereas the former also have budgets and schedules to worry
about. Unintegrated crap code has cost the open source project almost
nothing. Commercial enterprises, on the other hand, pay lots of money
for people to develop code whether it is crap or otherwise. The idea
of leaving expensive code unintegrated causes management paroxysms of
concern that are hard to ignore - a tool that blindly integrates crap
code automatically is a soothing balm for such people. Hence the
resistance to tools like git that encourage a maintainer role and,
implicit in that, the possibility of review that might result in crap
code being exposed for what it is.

My apologies for the late response.  I'm not ignoring this.  I am trying 
to process it in the context of my organization as I establish the 
workflows we'll be using.  I may have some follow up questions soon.

Josh