[Asterisk-Dev] benevolent dictatorship, or inclusive developper community?

[C. Maj]

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Brancaleoni Matteo waxed:

> hi
> 
> > Yeah and live in a nightmare.  The kernel only uses CVS as a
> > daily (or whatever) dump of what's in BitKeeper.  People
> > submit patches against CVS, sure, but the "branching" is
> > done with BK repositories.
> > 
> >     http://www.bitkeeper.com/
> 
> bah... I think that this is caused also by sponsorship..
> btw, a lot of huge opensource projects runs on CVS ...
> so, just learn how to use it.

Like FreeBSD.  Take a look at all the band aids they have
for keeping CVS from puking on itself:

    http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/cvs-freebsd/article.html

Spend an afternoon merging a branch back into a CVS tree,
and you'll never want to do it again.  I really think a
large part of the reason many open source projects don't
release that often is because CVS doesn't make it that
easy.

--Chris


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