Distributed Development, with Karl Fogel

phyjcowl writes "Karl Fogel is a founding developer of the Subversion project. In the following interview he covers social aspects of coordinating developers as well as the difficulties and advantages of managing an open source, distributed development project. Karl explains the inception of the Subversion project, what it has required to build its community, and what he has learned in order to successfully maintain it."

WTF

[dedazo]

There's two paragraphs and then you must "register" to read the rest of the article.

Do the editors not actually visit the links provided with the submissions?

I think they do, and I think this is another one of those slashvertisements that people get punished around here for suggesting they even exist.

I was actually looking forward to reading something from one of the svn devs. What a fucking waste of time.

Re:Here's the text -- for real

[kesuki]

http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157 196&cid=13183601 [slashdot.org]
  partial translation, and it has nothing to do with being 'geeky' this is written in a language you don't understand. Often called 'marketdroid' or 'doublespeak' this language is entirely derived by complicating the way you write things so that people are so busy scratching their heads they dont notice your hands in thier pockets.

Re:Rant: I found Subversion immature

[TheNarrator]

Sounds like you downloaded subversion and spent 5 minutes with it. Based on your review, I recommend you go spend the $500 per user for visual source safe. It will require reading no documentation and your firewall administrator will respect the fact that you're trying to use a Microsoft(tm) product and not some suspect open source program and bend over backwards to do whatever needs to be done to get it to work because it's the standard.

Better yet would someone make the "Enterprise" subversion package with an option to use internet explorer proxy settings and bloated soap calls instead of webdav and sell it to this guy for $500 a seat? Thanks. Oh yeah, and please reimplement it in managed C code running on top of .net? Thanks.

Re:Rant: I found Subversion immature

[agm]

Agreed. I'll often write string manipulation or file searching/parsing routines in c because a) it's easy to do, and b) it runs FAST (like 100Mb per data in less than 2 seconds).

Re:Registration required

[Arker]

And even if such accounts weren't terminated immediately, making them would still be the wrong answer.

The editors should not allow articles with broken links like that to be posted in the first place. Of course, it's obvious they can't be bothered to do anything but click a post button occasionally, and apparently randomly, so it falls to the readers to take care of it. Don't make a login, don't post the text, don't comment on the article at all, except to note that there's nothing to discuss, since the link doesn't work. And don't submit this kind of trash to begin with, of course.

Re:partial Translation was Re:Here's the text --

[jeremyp]

Um, subversion is Open Source. You can download it for free. It shares none of its code with CVS. Although it is a direct replacement for CVS, its architecture is completely different.

In short just about everything in your post is wrong.

Re:Rant: I found Subversion immature

[ggzeama]

Forgive him, 'cause he doesn't know what he's saying.
First, if you do not know how to handle you connectivity problems, ask your admin.
Second, HTTP never improved the connection speed or reliability. It's just a fatty protocol, adopted because it is sooooo widely used.
Third, your remark about C makes me repeat some things already written in this thread, so I'll be a good boy and stop here.

Just a piece of advice: if you do not need special security measures, forget about WebDAV and use svnserve, it's much faster (you can ask the admin to build a VPN or something). But if you do, ask the admin to do a NAT or port masq & use webDAV.
My personal opinion: I love svn, it's quite easy to configure/use and it never failed me ..... but, yes, I'm using it on *NIX.