Re: Revision control

[Michael Banck]

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:34:41PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
> I like the idea.
> 
> It would lower the barrier to begin coding on the hurd (I think), and it 
> would 
> be a good opportunity to clean up the cvs chaos a bit (so newcomers don't get 
> completely lost in the different repositories). 
> 
> Also it has the advantage to remove the central point of failure, which feels 
> very Hurd-like to me: Everyone has a full copy of the repository, and only 
> the reference repository is under central control. 

Well, CVS is certainly doomed, but I don't think the above two points
are strong arguments.  Probably gnumach-1-branch should be moved back to
HEAD, yes, but otherwise, the CVS looks pretty decent to me (note that
glibc still manages to use CVS, which is a far bigger project commit and
code-wise).

Also, a central repo is not much of a SPOF, if Savannah goes down with
all its backups, we got bigger problems than worrying about the Hurd I
guess. 


Michael