Re: Maintenance of the Hurd parts in glibc

[Barry deFreese]

Pierre THIERRY wrote:
> Scribit Michael Casadevall dies 23/07/2007 hora 17:53:
>   
> > When I joined [Castle Infinity], development was a complete mess
> > because of similar issues we had here (lack of organization, lack of
> > motivation/time by elder members). The first thing I did once I
> > realized was going on was locked our SVN repository's trunk, and
> > creating a new branch [...]
> >     
>
> Maybe it would help to lower entry barriers for the project. A
> distributed version control helps technically.
>
> Maybe we could mirror Hurd's CVS to some DVCS and see if it helps. I've
> already tailored it to Mercurial, if someone is interested:
>
> http://arcanes.fr.eu.org/~pierre/2007/07/hurd/
>
> Curiously,
> Pierre
>   
Pierre,

Didn't we try this already with the AMS branch or whatever it was?  How 
is it much different to have patches in an experimental branch if no-one 
reviews and commits them upstream then it is to have them in Debian?

Thanks,

Barry deFreese (aka bddebian)