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

[demian florentin]

I really don't think being decentralized is only about branching/merging,
anyways. I'll rather start using gobo-recipes mailing list, i don't want any
svn or cvs metadata on my tree, i think it's a bad design and it doesn't
look nice at all.

On 7/24/07, Samuel A. Falvo II <sam.falvo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
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