Re: [Arx-users] Real-world ArX usage

[Walter Landry]

Kevin Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> Walter Landry wrote:
> >>On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 08:41 -0400, Kevin Smith wrote:
> >>>In a perfect world, it would monitor each
> >>>developer's mirrored archive, and automatically initiate the merge.
> > 
> > 
> > Are you sure you want to do that?
> 
> I think so. Conceptually, when a developer submits changes to the master 
> server, they are being committed to the master archive. So automatically 
> pulling them into the master whenever they appear seems logical. In a 
> perfect world, the daemon would wait for 5 minutes of inactivity, and 
> then pull all pending changes. That's the approach taken by some CVS/Ant 
> tools like CruiseControl and AntHill.
> 
> Do you see problems with this approach?

For some reason, I missed the "mirrored" part of the "mirrored
archive" the first time I read it.  This looks fine.  You could even
put in a hook, so that every time you pushed to the mirror, you would
submit a merge request.

Cheers,
Walter