Re: Vger CVS R.I.P. (Was Re: the state of the linuxppc-dev community)

On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Martin Costabel wrote:

Michael Schmitz wrote:
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I could imagine a reworked web site, plus CVS or other access to the
sources would be a good start. I agree with Tony Mantler on the importance
of CVS - having run the m68k Mac port almost as one-man-show for a year,
switching to CVS encouraged at least five more people to start working on
various parts. Getting the latest sources without waiting for me
to build a new diff, checking in patches directly and improved
communication were instrumental in advancing development.

Speaking of CVS, I find it strange that nobody in this thread mentions
the vger CVS tree any more (but then I am finding many things strange
recently, "ppclinux".apple.com forgetting mklinux and so on, it's
probably me getting old). Until very recently, this tree maintained a

                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Say 3-4 months ago.

very up-to-date version of PPC patches. It seems that since yesterday,
PPC support on this tree is officially dead. There are comments like

RCS file: /cvs/linux/linux/include/asm-ppc/hw_irq.h,v
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revision 1.3
date: 2000/02/07 21:37:25;  author: davem;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
Not maintained here anymore.

Very sad. As a user, I found CVS much better than rsync, because it
gives much more information and has more intelligence in merging with
local changes. I only hope that bitkeeper will give similar
possibilities.

BK should be(come) better than CVS. I'm happy with BK now (sort of, still
getting used to it).

But I understand your frustration: I felt the same during the 2 months between
my vger-cvs and ppc-bk times. Let's hope ppc-bk is opened for the public
soon... IMHO bk is sufficient mature to have a positive netto gain for
Linux/PPC when combining a beta bk with the opening of the PPC kernel tree.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
							    -- Linus Torvalds


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