Re:Monorepos
by shoo on Saturday August 29, 2015 @07:12AM
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Conway's Law for infrastructure / tooling, perhaps.
If you have complete control over the organisation's dev process, and are willing to invest enough, you can build something better than the default free / distributed / popular tooling.
This is probably partly enabled by the fact that they don't have to care about trading patches easily with the outside world. Then, by rolling their own in-house workflow/infrastructure/tooling, they make it harder for outsiders to contribute, even if this were organisationally possible and desirable.
If you have complete control over the organisation's dev process, and are willing to invest enough, you can build something better than the default free / distributed / popular tooling.
This is probably partly enabled by the fact that they don't have to care about trading patches easily with the outside world. Then, by rolling their own in-house workflow/infrastructure/tooling, they make it harder for outsiders to contribute, even if this were organisationally possible and desirable.