From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EoThx-0006iI-ON for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 22:42:18 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBJMeX21011769; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 22:40:33 GMT Received: from nproxy.gmail.com (nproxy.gmail.com [64.233.182.202]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBJMZxJT003909 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 22:35:59 GMT Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id n15so186310nfc for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 14:35:59 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=qfpZ6GPWKx6B+gxQfIhNb0+hupbaSiqrQEPCbhpX6i7d+dThCu9Ap9TC1iDCXbzioVxTydtBpGY9oLFnODl2iyG6W6lsNN7TwRKHvMTuYJ9LlRE8sfNUdTGCg5vbC+TLdWN5EJT0aotUvtWz6vMWgLhgcPecEBiWVrnLDGzcXBs= Received: by 10.48.242.17 with SMTP id p17mr281857nfh; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 14:35:59 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.48.248.20 with HTTP; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 14:35:59 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <623652d50512191435x2209a2f6p@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 22:35:59 +0000 From: Chris Bainbridge <chris.bainbridge@gmail.com> To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Viability of other SCM/version control systems for big repo's In-Reply-To: <20051219215544.GD18849@butchest.cubesearch.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-dev+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-dev.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <43A70D98.7070504@gentoo.org> <1135027076.28875.11.camel@localhost> <20051219213810.GA9392@ferdyx.org> <20051219215544.GD18849@butchest.cubesearch.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id jBJMZxJT003909 X-Archives-Salt: 6ebfe239-f900-4abf-bf8b-d9fa2491b8e4 X-Archives-Hash: 0ef9de55f9d1fcd9ab0fcc1505470113 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. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list