I want to really re-iterate how great Junio Hamano has been as a git maintainer, and I haven't had to worry about git development for the last five years or so. Junio has been an exemplary maintainer, and shown great taste
Having listened in on the git developers mailing list for the last few years, occasionally getting involved, I can re-iterate how true this is.
Sure, git development uses some anachronistic-feeling conventions (like mailed patch-sets) but these all have reason behind them and exist because they work for the people who are working on git.
I don't know how many of the processes are held over from before Junio got involved, however both those processes and how Junio handles the entire thing are a great case study on how open source can be done. Some entry points for interested people:
Having listened in on the git developers mailing list for the last few years, occasionally getting involved, I can re-iterate how true this is.
Sure, git development uses some anachronistic-feeling conventions (like mailed patch-sets) but these all have reason behind them and exist because they work for the people who are working on git.
I don't know how many of the processes are held over from before Junio got involved, however both those processes and how Junio handles the entire thing are a great case study on how open source can be done. Some entry points for interested people:
https://github.com/gitster/git/blob/master/Documentation/how...
https://github.com/gitster/git/blob/master/Documentation/Sub...
https://github.com/gitster/git/blob/master/Documentation/Cod...