Distributed Revision Control System (was: Maintenance of the Hurd parts in glibc)

[Thomas Schwinge]

Hello!

On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 06:49:12PM +0200, 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.

Might be, yes.  It certainly won't do any harm, so...

> Maybe we could mirror Hurd's CVS to some DVCS and see if it helps.

Yes.

These days I'm actively working (REALLY!) on converting the old Hurd wiki
to ikiwiki (see the announcements on the web-hurd mailing list from some
months ago) and there I decided to use the dvcs git as the rcs backend.

After that endeavor of conversion is over and proves to be working well,
as a next step I intend to publish a git mirror of the Hurd source
repository.  If that also works out well and there is no protest from the
other Hurd maintainers then that git repository may eventually be
declared the official repository and the cvs one will become a read-only
mirror.  That's the plan.

> I've
> already tailored it to Mercurial, if someone is interested:
> 
> http://arcanes.fr.eu.org/~pierre/2007/07/hurd/

Thanks.  Maybe that already fits some peoples' needs?


Regards,
 Thomas

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