Re: The "Better SCM" Site

On 12 Nov 2002, Lloyd D Budd wrote:

> On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 05:33, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> >
> > http://better-scm.berlios.de/
>
> Surprising vaporous -- some might even consider your email SPAM. I
> would have thought that you would have had a description on subversion
> before "hitting" this list.
>

Hmmmp. The site is still under construction and I'd rather release an
incomplete site soon, rather than a full-fledged one several weeks for
now. Granted - I'll work on the subversion page.

> Your "headlines" are very dramatic, but in "Shlomi Fish - Evolution of a
> Revision Control User" your section title "Subversion - The Silver
> Bullet, that was not made of Gold" is not clear in the lacking gold
> aspect.
>

I liked BitKeeper a bit better than Subversion, because of its distributed
nature. Subversion is very nice, don't get me wrong, and naturally, I
could use a hosting for it which I can access everywhere (which I don't at
the moment).

> You also have some dead URLs, see Vesta link on main page.
>

Like I said, the site is under construction.

> I agree with some of the comments regarding "$20 million needed for the
> "Better CVS" Initiative" being "humorous", and a different approach will
> likely be more successful.
>
> Cheers to your passion for SCM burning long, and your actions speaking
> as loud as your words.
>

I think advocacy is also important. Many times reading what Joel Spolsky
or ESR said in their sites, completely changed the way I worked on my
projects and made my life much easier. The most productive thing a man can
make are key decisions, not actual coding.

BTW, I maintain the Better SCM site using Subversion and could really use
a central hosting server for it. In case it was not obvious - I really
like Subversion, but it is quite painful to work with without a server
which I can access from everywhere.

Keep up the good work.

Regards,

        Shlomi Fish

> Cheers,
> Lloyd D Budd
>
>
>

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Received on Tue Nov 12 12:43:59 2002