When will CVS be replaced by modern version control system?

[Josh Boyer]

On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:34:57 -0500
Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:31:47 -0600
> Josh Boyer <jwboyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > There are several people that are active developers for the packages
> > they maintain.  They're used to working on the code base itself,
> > developing patches, etc.  RPM specfiles are almost the last step in
> > their day-to-day dealings with a package.  These are the people that
> > are the major proponents of a DVCS.
> > 
> > Then there are the packagers.  They mostly take the upstream tarballs,
> > do the specfile work, and build things.  There isn't a lot of need for
> > multiple commits, offline working, etc.  The entire VCS setup we
> > currently use is geared toward packagers.
> 
> Which is mostly because it's for... packages.  Development should be
> happening upstream or elsewhere.  I think that a lot of it is coming
> from RHEL developers who are stuck with a package version for many
> years and build up a lot of cruft around it in package VCS, yet in
> Fedora we're free to move to newer upstream releases that fix problems
> and such, and thus the build up around our packages should be minimal.

Agreed.

josh