Re: changelogs in packages and space use

[seth vidal <skvidal fedoraproject org>]

On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 14:58 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> On 8/31/07, David Cantrell <dcantrell redhat com> wrote:
>         
>         Some packages are essentially the upstream source for a
>         project,
> 
> Yes, and I think this should be strongly discouraged.   For starters,
> spec files and patches are a poor substitute for revision control.  It
> also makes it significantly more painful for other people to reuse the
> work ( c.f. the Ubuntu developer's request).
> 
> If we have situations like this - put up a project on
> hosted.fedoraproject.org.  Or code.google.com.  Or sourceforge.

+1  to hosted.fedoraproject.org



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