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Re: [RFC] source repository at Apache

From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:38:47 +0200 (Jerusalem Standard Time)

Branko Cibej wrote on Wed, 11 Nov 2009 at 20:23 +0100:
> Ha. So, from a strictly CM-academic point of view, certainly, we should
> keep our history intact during transfer -- and that includes keeping
> revision numbers and implies not grandfathering in the CVS repository.
>
> I'm leaning the other way because a) we'll get a *lot* more serious
> testing of release candidates; b) we'll actually deal day-to-day with a
> repository that's orders of magnitude bigger than our own (death to
> scalability problems!) and c) it will give /us/ a bit of incentive to be
> extra careful checking the quality of release candidates.
>

I don't think (a) and (c) are related to whether we're in the Mother
repos or in our own repos; after all, presumably we can run release
candidates on Mother even if we're not in it ourselves. (We should
upgrade our own repository before upgrading Mother, of course :))

> Sometimes you just have to be pragmatic and break the world for everyone
> so that you can build a better one. ;)
>

:-)

> -- Brane
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