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Although it's not as if switching to distributed revision control will eliminate politics. It just transforms them and pushes them around. Who owns the mainli
by Oxryly 16y ago
Although it's not as if switching to distributed revision control will eliminate politics. It just transforms them and pushes them around. Who owns the mainline of a project? Why won't s/he accept my patches? etc.. etc...
- thristian 16y agoOf course it doesn't eliminate politics, but it cleanly separates technical concerns from political ones. With a centralised version control system, technical problems can have political ramifications ("$LEADER said she'd give me commit access three weeks ago and she still hasn't; sure she claims she's suffered a server crash but I think she just doesn't like me") and vice-versa ("$COMMITTER didn't like $OTHER_COMMITTER's contributions, so they started a revert war").