[Oberon] Wikibook _versus_ svn or git.

[Jörg Straube]

Agree. (forking, spooning and knifing is not easy...)
I meant with "repository" a kind of "moderated contribution", "moderated" to limit bloatware a little, "moderated" by more than one person alone (namely NW) and with a versioning system so you can identify the "contribution" against a certain version of the code :-)

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Jörg

> Am 05.09.2016 um 13:53 schrieb Lars <noreply at z505.com>:
> 
>> On Wed, April 20, 2016 10:50 am, Jörg Straube wrote:
>> I would appreciate a repository of ProjectOberon, where the community >
> can contribute instead of having independent forks.
> 
> Sometimes repositories make even more forks... Github encourages people to
> fork, fork, fork, as many times as they wish... then hopefully
> contributions get contributed back to the original master developer, but
> do they?
> 
> SVN and CVS were a bit more central and didn't encourage as much forking,
> supposedly, but even with SVN you still had people forking..
> 
> The Wirth approach seems to be have one main person understand and code an
> entire system rather than have millions of bells and whistle fork/feature
> request systems that make the system large.
> 
> I appreciate revision control as it is a great backup system, but this
> forking forking forking issue needs to be addressed. It seems the
> repository systems, encourage forking, and even Wirth's way of doing
> things encourages forking because people find the language lacking so they
> create a fork to add missing features.
> 
> This forking issue is not an easy problem to solve (thinking of spooning).
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