Ed Hill (ed@xxxxxxx) said: > Can someone please explain what parts of CVS are so horribly broken that > Fedora must abandon it right now? Even with all the (very well known) > CVS warts and shortcomings I still don't see why Fedora needs to be in > a hurry to move away from it. Basically, we want to enable anyone taking Fedora and doing what they want - use it as a branching off point for their own ideas, their own testing, etc. We want it to be dead simple for them to be able to take what we have, add a patch of their own to their own personal branch, build, test, and make available for people to test and use, all without gating on a single maintainer. The easiest way to start down this road is to use a distributed SCM that allows for easy project cloning. (And this is why a CVS -> SVN change is fundamentally uninteresting.) > And shouldn't the contentious nature of the proposed CVS replacements > be seen as a warning -- that perhaps things haven't really sorted > themselves out in the SCM arena and it would be smart to wait for > an FC8 or FC9 time-frame? Actually, that's the plan as discussed at the summit today - we'd like to create a SIG with a defined lifetime (i.e., not for F7) whose job it is to help define and create this infrastructure. Bill -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
