X.Org Foundation - Release Call - 3rd May 2004

[Daniel Stone]

On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 01:42:29PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 04:43:57PM +0100, Howard Greenwell wrote:
> > Jim and Daniel both complain about CVS, and would like to see another
> > alternative.
> 
> I'd love to help out with a Subversion installation, but I am concerned
> about (inadvertent) XFree86 1.1 license contamination given recent
> statements by David Dawes[1][2][3].  (Whether such statements can
> reasonably be interpreted to have retroactive effect is quite open to
> debate, but I've personally had zero luck getting answers to concrete
> questions from XFree86 regarding the licensing situation.)

From one half of the 'complainers', this would be a step backwards.
Subversion is really CVS dressed up with a nicer method of branching,
proper copies, et al, and has its own reliability/scalability issues,
not to mention the not-infrequent protocol/on-disk format changes.

I was personally gunning for Arch. Full disconnected operation, proper
changesets and GnuPG signing of them, crazy branching and crazier
merging (in a good way). It's really the only SCM system that scales,
and it's fantastic for people working on completely unrelated things in
branches, or people working offline, or whatever.

-- 
Daniel Stone                                            <daniel at freedesktop.org>
freedesktop.org: powering your desktop                http://www.freedesktop.org
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