Distributed version control systems (DVCS)

[fudje]

That's more of an "If I was running the show..." kind of comment, however: My point of view comes from the fact that with a dvcs you can generally afford to shut down the main tree during the bugfix phase of a release, as each developer's branch can be accessible to every other developer, allowing for continued testing during this time. On the other hand, if you approach a system with the thought of a staging branch being a good idea, you probably ought to have one. It's not a bad thing, merely something that can be omitted if you don't mind allowing development to be completely decentralised during this period

The article and its follow up that is currently in the works are more supposed to be food for thought. Certainly the part that deals with developer trees should be more interesting to the wiki anyway.