Follow on from "Git Aware Distributed Issue Trackers"

Follow on from "Git Aware Distributed Issue Trackers"

[Andrew Chilton]

Hi everyone@Git (and copied to cil-dev list too),

Martin Langhoff who is on the Git mailing list pointed me to a thread
you guys were having on 24th August
(http://marc.info/?l=git&m=121924582628111) regarding Distributed
Issue Trackers. Cil was mentioned and some questions asked so thought
I should say hello and try to respond to a couple here. Sorry for not
replying earlier but I've been on holiday and mainly disconnected.

Shaun O Pearce (http://marc.info/?l=git&m=121925072006524&w=2) asked:
> If I mark the status of an issue in a branch that isn't ready
> for mainline how do I share that status update with everyone else?

That's a good question and one I'm still not sure of myself. I've had
discussions with friends and colleagues of mine regarding some of
these issues and certainly have some ideas (like a separate Git Repo
as you suggested later) but I think you're right when you mention that
"Nobody has solved the hard technical problem of making it easy to
distribute the state changes...[snip]".

Which is why there is a small group of us over on the Cil Development
mailing list (http://groups.google.com/group/cil-dev)  discussing what
should happen in various situations. It's certainly a new field to
play in and lots of points are up for grabs :-)

I don't want to go on too much here (unless you want me too) since
this mailing list is for Git rather than Cil but I invite any of you
over to the Cil Dev mailing list where we can thrash around some
ideas. I think some of these problems _can_ be solved but I rather
think it's a case that no-one has really tried it yet AND tried to
solve them. Cil has been tracking it's own issues since about day 2 so
we have solved a couple of problems encountered along the way though
there are definitely lots more nuts to crack.

Finally, I'm eager to try lots of ideas out so any patches to Cil are
very welcome. In all honesty, I'm still relatively new to Git and
whilst I generally know what I'm talking about I certainly don't have
the experience of you guys, something which would be very much
welcomed if you're interested in Cil, either for Git itself or your
own projects.

BTW: I must sign off with a huge thank you, Git has been wonderful
since I started using it :-D

Cheers,
Andy

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