On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:56:05 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Gary Thomas <gary@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Jesse Keating wrote: >> >> > On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 15:05 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: >> > >> > > There will be an outage starting at 2008-04-19 18:00 UTC. Initial >> > > estimates show that 30 hours will be needed to complete the >> > > branching, however this may drastically be reduced during the full >> > > run. >> > > >> > > >> > Unfortunately this outage is still ongoing. I failed to get a >> > notification when the first leg finished around 2am my time and lost >> > 6~ hours to sleep. All the PackageDB settings are done (barring a >> > few failures) and we're well into the packages that start with "p" >> > for making the branches within CVS. I expect it to take another half >> > a day or so to finish. >> > >> > Future Recommendation: >> > Enable methods of doing mass branching without incurring an outage. >> > Make pkgdb be able to bypass mail sending, and make CVS be able to >> > bypass mail sending for these operations. Will take longer overall, >> > but no outage. >> > >> > >> Recommendation - switch to SVN (quite painless). All of these things >> are pretty simple to implement. Things like tagging become O(0) [i.e. >> constant and *fast*] >> >> > All Version Control Systems are broke when they deal with large > projects... even SVN has its limitations. > > The big issue is that the religious wars that get involved with any of > the systems. People tantrum if their system is not chosen and every time > a problem comes up with the new system they will point out why choosing > XCS was boneheaded. This bogs down the cycle more than anything else. Cleary someone from the fedoraproject needs to design a new vcs tailored just for fedora. <ducks> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
