Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Jesse Keating wrote:
I don't think anybody disagrees that we should move to another SCM that
allows for better downstream interaction. However just a direct copy
of our workflow to git doesn't help.
If it doesn't help people wouldn't have requested it in the first
place. It might be the case that we don't want that as a final plan
but this could be a incremental process. Provide a copy and mark it as
experimental. See how well it used and then if the advantages are
compelling to more people, some might take the initiative to move us
to a distributed SCM altogether.
People request all sorts of things. In my mind the pain of backups,
jobs, storage and dealing with hg, bzr and mercurial people wanting the
same thing vastly out weighs the benefit (which I'm still unclear of)
Additionally on the list it was determined if someone else wanted to
host this, we can make access to the raw cvs repo easier.
Nobody wants to work on the hard
problem, thus nothing gets done, no matter /who/ wants it.
Has the Fedora Board recognized that moving to a distributed SCM is
desirable for downstream folks and asked Fedora infrastructure to work
on that or indicated in any way that this is the future direction? I
think this is one of the instances where the Fedora Board should take
on a more active role.
To date no one has had the combination of vision, persistence and just
plain craziness to put together a comprehensive plan, propose it to the
list, put a proof of concept together, and then convince people it's
what we need. This is no small task and since CVS is working (we are
putting in source and getting RPM's somehow), it could likely be some
time before it happens.
-Mike
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