[gobolinux-users] Call for volunteers: would you like to be a recipe committer?

[Samuel A. Falvo II]

On 7/24/07, MJ Ray <mjr at phonecoop.coop> wrote:
> My current opinion is that any project on more than one continent is
> large enough to benefit from a distributed version control system.

Personally, I could go either way with this particular project.  The
question boils down to this: how often do we branch?

In software development, branches occur all over the place, all the
time.  But in package management?  That's a different consideration.

If branching to a wide fanout is not required, then SVN may provide
just as fruitful a service as git would.  This is because, in this
case, SVN is being used as a configuration management tool.  Remember,
distributed systems were designed to solve the branching problem,
first and foremost.

WRT to "SVN users are stupid."  I was at that tech-talk, and I must
admit I enjoyed overall.  But there are two things that I really wish
Linus would learn:

* Having an agenda when giving a presentation is A GOOD THING.  Stop
the rambling nonsense.

* Insulting the audience generally isn't a good thing, even if you
mean it and/or try to express it in a humorous manner.

A lot of people left the tech talk that day for one of those two
reasons.  Interestingly, it is the latter reason why Google will no
longer even consider migrating away from Perforce on future projects.
The admins came to learn something.  They left disgusted.  Pity.

-- 
Samuel A. Falvo II