[fab] Re: "community maintainers working on core" dilemma

[Bill Nottingham]

Christopher Blizzard (blizzard at redhat.com) said: 
> Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> >The advantage of using the VCS/bundles rather than patches is when
> >merging.  If <core> has done development on the package since <me>
> >branched their version of the package <core> has more information to
> >merge the changes back in.
> >
> 
> I'm sure that a VCS is part of the solution on how to move forward, to 
> be sure.  But I want to avoid super-specific technology solutions to the 
> problems at hand.  I want to nail down our goals and what the developer 
> experience is before we pick tools or decide to build our own.

I don't know, I'd rather work incrementally - first get Core & Extras
in new-distributed-thing-for-multiple-inside-and-outside-maintainers,
then go down the next-gen magic thing.

Bill