Subversion use for Kernel work
From: Bob Gustafson <bobgus_at_rcnChicago.com>
Date: 2003-02-26 17:19:57 CET
There is a rather fascinating read at:
http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/latest.html
(February 23 issue - might not be 'latest' in a few days)
Some excerpts are given further below.
The kernel is being kept in BitKeeper, which is a proprietary system, but
At the moment, there does exist an opportunity for the Subversion community
If it is ready.
BobG
===== Kernel Traffic excerpts below ======
Andrea liked the 'Binglish' comparison, but said:
...
The kernel CVS in more than enough for my/our needs and I thank
---- And Henning P. Schmiedehausen also said to Larry: Linus stated in public that he was/is unhappy with CVS. Without Bitkeeper he might use Subversion today. But by using Bitkeeper he made it possible that you and your company started using him as your posterboy for the "SCM good enough for Linus Torvalds to use". This is IMHO not correct. BK is just "the first SCM which came along and was good enough for Linus Torvalds to use it". I do remember Linus saying that he wants to try out BitKeeper for the 2.5 development tree and if it does not work out, switch to something else in the 2.6, 2.7... cycle. The rift that the whole BitKeeper/BitMover stuff has opened in the kernel developer community IMHO justifies such a step forward . I'd like to see SVN to be used as an alternative tool. Not because it is better (it probably is not, but I haven't had a chance to try out BK because I don't qualify for the free license) than BK but because it has no strings attached to its usage. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@subversion.tigris.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@subversion.tigris.orgReceived on Wed Feb 26 17:20:39 2003 |
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