Re: [Boost-users] What's happened to Ryppl?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] What's happened to Ryppl?
From: Dean Michael Berris (mikhailberis_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-28 13:49:00

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:59 PM, Ted Byers <r.ted.byers_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>From: boost-users-bounces_at_[hidden]
> [mailto:boost-users-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Eric J. Holtman
>>Sent: January-28-11 8:56 AM
>>To: boost-users_at_[hidden]
>>Subject: Re: [Boost-users] What's happened to Ryppl?
>>
>>
>>You can check in while you work. Â  Which means you
>>don't have to worry about "breaking the build", or anything like that.
>>
>>Write some code, test it, seems to work, check it in. Â Come back after
> lunch, discover it's fubar, revert. Â Lather, rinse repeat.
>
> This may be adequate IF you're working alone and if you have all the time in
> the world, but it will become an unmaintainable nightmare when the number of
> programmers contributing to the project increases significantly and as time
> pressures grow. Â Imagine the chaos that would result from this if you had a
> dozen programmers doing this independantly to the same codebase.
>

One project to look at: Linux.

Time pressure? Couple of weeks to merge upstream.

Programmers contributing to the project? Thousands.

Programmers doing this independently on the same codebase? Absolutely.

'nuff said.

[snip tl;dr]

-- 
Dean Michael Berris
about.me/deanberris