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From: Chris Bainbridge <chris.bainbridge@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Viability of other SCM/version control systems for big repo's
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On 19/12/05, Peter Johanson <peter@peterjohanson.com> wrote:
>
> Or maybe not, I dunno. The point being I don't think we should immediately write off
> any of the distributed SCMs without pondering how they might make a difference or be usable.

It would  be very useful for people who aren't devs but only if they
have access to the repository. It would also be useful for devs to
have a standard way of publishing their testing/development portage
overlays. On the first point, would any of the alternative SCMs prove
to be better than CVS resource wise for providing anonymous access to
users? It might also be useful to facilitate non-devs contributing
patches to the tree - rather than posting files into bugzilla they
could point towards whereever they publish their current tree (or
changes), and developers can then work with their changes directly
instead of the bugzilla upload/download dance we do now.

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