This kind of underscores my observation that a large part of this debate is driven by source control technologies.
RTC seems popular for projects using Git, while CTR seems popular in communities using SVN. RTC is a LOT easier using Git than SVN if the model is branching. FWIW, I personally could swallow using RTC with Git, but I would seriously have problems with RTC with SVN. On Nov 23, 2015, at 12:20 PM, Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 3. community building >> >> Lots of successful open source projects, both inside and outside ASF, >> employ RTC. As Todd mentioned, almost all the top 10 most starred (on >> github) projects use some form of RTC, so it is hard for me to believe that >> RTC would hinder community building. Of course, one can always argue that >> if those projects had employed CTR, maybe they would've been even more >> popular. But then we got into the area that we just have to agree to >> disagree. >> > > Well, you could also look at openhub.net: > https://www.openhub.net/orgs/apache ... I believe those top 10 are *all* > CTR. ... in fact, of ALL projects tracked by openhub, httpd and svn are #2 > and #4 respectively[*]. They are models of communities where trust rules > and CTR is the basis of operation. > > Using GitHub as a proxy for evaluation skews towards git-based projects, > whereas openhub is tool independent.
