On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:34:57 -0500 Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:31:47 -0600 > Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > There are several people that are active developers for the packages > > they maintain. They're used to working on the code base itself, > > developing patches, etc. RPM specfiles are almost the last step in > > their day-to-day dealings with a package. These are the people that > > are the major proponents of a DVCS. > > > > Then there are the packagers. They mostly take the upstream tarballs, > > do the specfile work, and build things. There isn't a lot of need for > > multiple commits, offline working, etc. The entire VCS setup we > > currently use is geared toward packagers. > > Which is mostly because it's for... packages. Development should be > happening upstream or elsewhere. I think that a lot of it is coming > from RHEL developers who are stuck with a package version for many > years and build up a lot of cruft around it in package VCS, yet in > Fedora we're free to move to newer upstream releases that fix problems > and such, and thus the build up around our packages should be minimal. Agreed. josh -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
