On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 10:28 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 15:31 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 09:10:24AM -0400, Brandon Lozza wrote: >> > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 2:54 AM, Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > > Hey all! It's that time again, we're gearing up to branch for Fedora 14 >> > > this coming Tuesday! There is a major twist this time around, we're >> > > going to attempt a roll out of dist-git! >> > --snipped--- >> > >> > I'm just curious but would this allow someone to more easily fork the >> > distro? (think of stuff like Mint) >> >> The ability to fork {packages|kernels|distros} is a good thing. It >> keeps the software lively and keeps the purveyors of software honest. >> I enjoyed reading Rick Moen's essay on the subject: >> >> http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Licensing_and_Law/forking.html > > Also, of course, one of the truisms about git is that it doesn't only > make it easier to *fork*: it makes it easier to *merge*. So even if the > change does let people fork Fedora more easily, it also lets us > incorporate their changes and bring them back into mainline more easily > too. > -- > Adam Williamson > Fedora QA Community Monkey > IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org > http://www.happyassassin.net > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > And vice versa :) -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel