On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 11:25 -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > I really dont know what sort of high level vision statement your > asking for here. > Does the board want Fedora to use a distributed SCM at some point? Is > that the sort of vision statement you want to hear.I personally don't > give a rats ass what pieces of technology Fedora as a project actually > makes a commitment to using as long as it makes it easier for us to be > a conduit for upstream development. Any technology choice which makes > it easier for downstream to consume us, but doesn't make it easier for > downstream to contribute back to us and then us back into upstream > projects is NOT something I want to see and runs counter to the > upstreaming mantra. Certainly duplicating our cvs as a git collection > is not going to help make it easier to contribute back to us and then > on into upstream. > > The distributed SCM issue is absolutely mired in implementation > details. Considering the landscape I'm not even sure we end up with a > net win in terms of easing the contribution burden by selecting a > single candidate technology. I'm willing to wait for the SCM SIG to > present a roadmap. holy crap I like this answer. +10 -sv _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
