Hosting and Supporting GIT conversion of Fedora CVS to enable downstream development efforts and distributions

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 11:25 -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote:

> I really dont know what sort of high level vision statement your
> asking for here.
> Does the board want Fedora to use a distributed SCM at some point? Is
> that the sort of vision statement you want to hear.I personally don't
> give a rats ass what pieces of technology Fedora as a project actually
> makes a commitment to using as long as it makes it easier for us to be
> a conduit for upstream development.  Any technology choice which makes
> it easier for downstream to consume us, but doesn't make it easier for
> downstream to contribute back to us and then us back into upstream
> projects is NOT something I want to see and runs counter to the
> upstreaming mantra.  Certainly duplicating our cvs as a git collection
> is not going to help make it easier to contribute back to us and then
> on into upstream.
> 
> The distributed SCM issue is absolutely mired in implementation
> details.  Considering the landscape I'm not even sure we end up with a
> net win in terms of easing the contribution burden by selecting a
> single candidate technology.  I'm willing to wait for the SCM SIG to
> present a roadmap.


holy crap I like this answer.
+10

-sv