Re: [AD] Question about versions

[Colin Ward <lists@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 24/08/2008, you wrote:
> 

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>> I didn't really think of that, as I have a bunch of beta tests and
>> another person who is busy porting every game he can get his hands on
>>  to the Amiga. So in terms of people to do "QA" it's all covered.  I
>> could put it in Subversion but I doubt there are any other Amiga users
>> (especially Amiga OS4 users) on this list...
>
> The Actual developers of upstream Opensource projects tend to like
> regular updates. How would you like it if you were part of a very small
> team and allong one day comes a guy who you've heard from twice, who
> dumps tens or hundreds of kb of code? What are you going to do with
> that code? Do you have the time to check each and every last line for
> possible issues? Not likely.
>
> And I don't think we should accept a large dump either.

Please Thomas, I'm not a noob and I have been involved in many open source
projects over the years.  I understand what you mean and of course I
understand the importance of incremental commits and being involved in the
development of the project as a whole (that's why I'm on this list).  But
in this case the code that will be committed will live in src/amiga and is
completely independent of the rest of Allegro.  In other words, it will not
break or modify generic Allegro code in any way and the only people who are
affected by its addition to Subversion are Amiga users (all three of 'em!).

So if I do finish the port locally and then commit a completely working and
tested version to src/amiga then I don't see why that would be a problem. 
After all, for a new port you are going to have to accept a "large dump" no
matter what stage of porting that code is up to because it is a whole new
platform.

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