From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KmmmJ-0006p0-3q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:53:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D599EE029D; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 09:53:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from snowy.fizzelpark.com (snowy.fizzelpark.com [85.25.140.198]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 626DCE03AA for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 09:53:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 21336 invoked from network); 6 Oct 2008 09:53:20 -0000 Received: from 79.142.224.149 ([79.142.224.149]) by mail.fizzelpark.com ([85.25.252.58]) with ESMTP via SSL; 06 Oct 2008 09:53:20 -0000 From: Thilo Bangert Organization: Gentoo To: gentoo-scm@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-scm] Re: Welcome to Gentoo-SCM discussion, for figuring out Gentoo beyond CVS Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 11:50:59 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <200810052359.49834.bangert@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo SCM discussions X-BeenThere: gentoo-scm@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-scm@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1893524.o4L8rbNF3W"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200810061151.03266.bangert@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 37160298-7b78-4411-a7c0-2ead78351f0c X-Archives-Hash: 0652dc6d5ffa65dfee6d9df759aa30b4 --nextPart1893524.o4L8rbNF3W Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline "Alec Warner" said: > Except some VCS are more usable with different repo layouts; how do > you intend to reconcile these differences? we dont. having a decent VCS now is infinitly more valuable than spending=20 2 years discussing the perfect repo layout. also, switching to a=20 decentralised VCS may/will spawn modes of operation that we dont even=20 know about yet, possibly making the so thoughtful established repo layout=20 changes obsolete faster than the time it took to come up with them. i am not opposed to the idea of layout changes; its just not my personal=20 itch (right now). and quite frankly - i dont see anybody else here, whose=20 itch it is... our current VCS is inhibiting development and innovation. our repo layout=20 is not! absolute worst case is, that we switch again. though that is a risk we=20 still encounter if we do repo layout changes now.=20 best regards Thilo --nextPart1893524.o4L8rbNF3W Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkjp34cACgkQxRElEoA5AnfOQgCgxJoY1qV42M6JuQtddKSQx7b9 EtkAn2UTd+emanvKuzKV/U+LVIhrmTKh =DaMD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1893524.o4L8rbNF3W--