Re: [gentoo-dev] Git braindump: 2 of N: developer interaction (merge co-ordinators)

[Dirkjan Ochtman <djc@gentoo.org>]

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 2:48 AM, Dirkjan Ochtman <djc@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> IMO we should try to be cutting down barriers from the git migration,
>> not throwing up more. The process has taken long enough already; the
>> desire to control everything about the migration is part of why it's
>> taken so long.
>
> Fair enough.
>
> We should also be asking ourselves what happens if something goes
> really wrong and there are no commits for a whole two days.  I think
> the answer is, not much.  As long as there are a few devs who can tend
> to security issues or whatever I don't see it as an issue if we have
> the odd glitch.

That's what I was thinking, too. :)

> We do need to get the docs up so that we're at least somewhat
> harmonized on conventions (authors vs committers, and so on).  Let's
> not burn the first person to make a mistake at the stake either...

Yeah, some initial tutorial of how to get going would probably help a
lot. For everything else, there's IRC (and hopefully most of what's
discussed there would soon find it's way into the HOWTO doc).

Cheers,

Dirkjan