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On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak
<knaak AT iqo DOT uni-hannover DOT de> wrote:
> Peter Stuge wrote:
>
>> It's a great example of a feature branch, and maintaining it in a
>> branch somewhere outside of the primary repo allows more freedom in
>> the development.
>>
>> It becomes unneccessary to constantly synchronize with whatever else
>> is going on, and development of the new feature can include wild
>> experiments across the codebase which aren't neccessarily desirable
>> in the primary repo just because they are part of the process for
>> creating the new feature.
>
> This worked well with Peter Cliftons development of openGL rendering and
> better polygon support (Thank you again, Peter!).
>
> His branch also shows the potential problems of such an almost forked
> approach. More often than not life outside open source development demands
> more priority. The tedious work to make changes compatible with the main
> branch may be postponed until forever. There were some desirable features
> in Peters branches that got lost in the process. E.g. solder mask used to
> be cut by the outline of the board in one of his branches. And of course,
> the impressive speed-up I saw with one of his more "aggressive" branches.

As another example, the vim scripts pages are now largely dead, and instead
we have 10+ forks for each popular script with exactly one bug fix in each.

I feel a bit bad since this discussions seems somewhat like a backhanded
way to try to get more integration work out of Peter.

Britton