I’ve been wondering lately whether or not I should be moving my different projects from subversion to mercurial. Not so much because subversion could have let me down in any ways, I’ve been very happy with it, but rather because I wonder if it would help users of said projects to experiment and become occasional or regular contributors.
If anything, the distributed model lower the barrier for users to branch and go wild with ideas they might have. I don’t really want to add contributors to my subversion repository just so that they can try something out that might not have any happy outcome. I’ve been happy enough that my projects had never drawn more attention that I could handle but that doesn’t mean I don’t want people to take over in some fashion and I’ve been wondering if DCVS like mercurial wouldn’t allow that. Ultimately of course the official repository would be the one available on defuze but it would still be much easier for people to try out and propose modifications or extensions to projects.
Anyway, I would be happy in your feedback on the subject as I’m still trying to make my mind around this issue.
