Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2009, #07; Wed, 28)

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:42:27PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> We seem to have acquired a bad habit of discussing and agreeing on a
> potential improvement and then not following through, forgetting it
> altogether.
> 
> Exciting new features we can count on original submitters to stick to them
> and push them forward whether we go into a release freeze, but the more
> boring kind of patches that we already know what we want to see by the
> next release are actually the more important to the overall project;
> sadly, they tend to get lost somewhere in the crack.  I wonder if we can
> do anything about it.

I used to be more diligent about making a note of such things in my todo
list and then actually trying to reduce the size of that todo list
occasionally. But my git time has shrunk a bit lately due to my day job,
and I have been spending more time reviewing patches and discussing
ideas on the list, so it has been a while since I have actually sat down
to check something off of my todo.

I think in this case it was a matter of "it didn't make it onto
anybody's todo list". So I think it is nice that you put together the
patch; but I also think a gentle nudge of "so is anybody going to do
this?" would have worked, since it gives another chance for people to
claim ownership.

> And no, a bug tracker is not the answer, even though it could be a (small)
> part of the solution.

Maybe it would be sufficient to simply keep a public record of
intent-to-work on certain topics. Usually it is obvious from the mail
exchange what is going to happen next, but sometimes (as I think in this
case) it is left somewhat ambiguous.

> -- >8 --
> Subject: Install the default "master" branch configuration after cloning a void

The patch looks good to me.

-Peff