I am currently working on a project and we are having a bit of a dilemma about how to move the project forward. So, I thought I would write an article about it, post it out to this wonderful community, and maybe get some unbiased insight from some outsiders. I feel like myself and the others involved are all a little too invested to necessarily make the best decision; maybe I am being petty, irrational, or even short-sighted (hopefully you can let me know). You can read the original thread here, and I suggest you do so to get an accurate vision of this issue.

To me, the question is about the value of process over code and here is my story. And in reality it should not be a decision of one or the other.

The Situation

I am greatly going to simplify this situation in hopes to give a more accurate and unbiased view but there are plenty of details that are relevant to our actual discussion.

• There is a module at version 1.0.
• There is a group with a forked version with good code in it; we'll call it Cool-Code-X
• We have decided to bring these together to create a version 2.0

The Decision

The question is how to bring things together.

1. Option M: Start with version 1.0 and bring in Cool-Code-X changes to create version 2.0. This requires porting the changes in Cool-Code-2 to be ported into the 1.x.
2. Option N: Start with Cool-Code-X and bring in 1.x changes to create version 2.0.