Growth of Ubuntu Distributed Development

[Scott Kitterman]

On Tuesday, July 20, 2010 05:07:11 am Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Jul 19, 2010, at 05:59 PM, Francis J. Lacoste wrote:
> >My theory is that usage is increasing but among a core group of
> >people. So a few more people try it out, but haven't persisted in
> >making the switch. But the ~15-25 people how are really using it are
> >using it more.
> >
> >Does that seem consistent with your views of the current usage? What
> >is blocking more users from jumping on the UDD bandwagon?
> 
> I'm trying to use UDD as much as possible, so here are my thoughts.
> 
> For someone like Scott, who is a very experienced and knowledgeable
> developer, UDD might be promising but isn't yet compelling enough to
> replace the tools and processes they've built up over the years.  I don't
> want to put words in his mouth, but I suspect that UDD seems like just
> another of the many options for doing packaging.

For me the major benefit of UDD is the finer grained history when I'm trying to 
understand when a change was introduced (and maybe why).  Fortunately, I can 
get that without every using UDD, since tracing changes down to a particular 
upload to the archive has, as far as I can recall, always been sufficient.

Currently, I see a lot of negatives to using the UDD tool set (as described in 
my January message) that cause me not to bother.  I'm glad to see some 
progress has been made, but, for example, until merging is easier/faster with 
UDD than MoM, I'm unlikely to make much use of it.

Scott K