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Distributed Development, with Karl Fogel

Posted by Hemos on from the building-the-new-versioning-control dept.

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."

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  1. WTF by dedazo · · Score: 4, Insightful
    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.

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  2. Re:Here's the text -- for real by kesuki · · Score: 3, Insightful

    http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157 196&cid=13183601
      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.

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  3. Re:Rant: I found Subversion immature by TheNarrator · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.