* Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> [2005:04:02 05:21 -0800]: > On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 01:16:45PM +0200, Jutta Wrage wrote: > > - Arch is not available for Debian Woody (still the stable release) > > - Most of the debian projects use CVS while some are moving to svn. I don't think you're involved in enough Debian projects to accurately state that. > - I don't know if any developers are still using cvs just because it's > included in woody, but all developers are *required* to have systems (or > chroots) running unstable for purposes of package building, and this also > extends to non-DD package maintainers, who are expected to test their > packages before submitting them to sponsors Indeed, and this was one of the things Thierry and I took into account. Out of everyone in DW, I think Jutta is the only one using woody. (Or at least, the only one I know of and since no one else has complained, I can only assume it's not an issue for most people; I figure having it in testing and unstable covers enough bases.) > Hmm, it rather sounds to me like you're the one attached to a particular > version control system, not those who are choosing arch. I know that Erinn > has been evaluating several version control systems on IRC over the past > couple of weeks and, with a fresh perspective that I've long since lost, > found them lacking. Since she has no prior experience administering a > repository, I don't think you can fairly say that her choice was biased; and > since she *is* the person who's stepping forward to administer the repo > (which is the hard part of any repository -- committing changes has a > minimal learning curve in all of them), I think her choice should be given > weight. Well, FWIW, the decision was actually between Thierry and I; he has done most of the work setting things up. He said he was considering using Arch, I said that was fine, and away we went. But no, I am not beholden to any particular version control system. I hate almost all of them, but I figure Arch is the most sophisticated and if we are going to use something for a long time, we might as well make sure it's current. -- off the chain like a rebellious guanine nucleotide
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