Re: About the devel "branch"

[K.G.]

On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 09:10:06 +0200
Sven Luther <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 02:31:04AM +0200, K.G. wrote:
> > On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 01:19:48 +0200
> > Sven Luther <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 06:56:44PM +0200, K.G. wrote:
> > > > Hi everybody,
> > > > 
> > > > The devel branch is now totally out of sync with the recent progress
> > > > made in stable, and just correspond to an old stable version.
> > > > 
> > > > Maybe we could just drop it and use a real CVS branch instead ?
> > > > That would allow us to apply patches from stable to devel, and in the
> > > > meantime to start some more deeper modifications if we want to.
> > > 
> > > What about moving to subversion or some other more modern revision control
> > > system ?
> > 
> > Yeah subversion looks really cool (I just read the manual today :)
> > 
> > Which are the other modern revision control systems ?
> 
> arch, bazzar, darcs, git , not sure if they are other.
> 
> We already have a subversion repo on aliot though, which i use for the debian
> packaging of parted, and migration can be instantaneous, and i believe the ue
> of subversion over the other solution is much less barrier to entry than the
> other systems.

I took a quick look, and i think svn looks just good for us.
I don't think we really need a decentralized VCS, the repository migration cost
is low (as low as null cause you already have a svn repo :P ), and it's very 
easy
to use when you already know CVS.
So as everybody agree let's use it :)

Leslie wanted to use Berlios to put everything there, so do we wait until it's
ready or can we just switch from cvs to svn on alioth and maybe transfer the
whole repository later (if it's possible (and usefull ?))

Cheers,
Guillaume Knispel