svn or arch
Cristian Gafton
gafton at redhat.com
Fri Dec 17 06:18:13 UTC 2004
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Yes - Cristian Gafton did months of extensive
>> testing to see if either
>> could stand up to the load of internal and external
>> checkins on the
>> scale red hat does with distributions.
>>
>> He found that cvs was the only one to stand up to
>> the load.
>
> Ok thanks for the quick reply. are the results
> available anywhere. It would be nice to let the
> svn/arch developers know about this. I am pretty sure
> they would be interested
Please note - this was happening quite a long time ago as far as the
developers for those projects are concerned.
The first thing we had to do to enable this CVS repository was to redo the
way we were handling the source packaging internally. That meant earlier
this year making a decision about which source code management (SCM)
platform offered the best mix of features, reliability, low cost of
transition, performance and political acceptance. I looked at a lot of
those SCMs.
It all boiled down back to CVS because, while having some major
shortcomings, which I am sure that the proponents of SVN and/or arch will
quickly point out, it had a unique quality: everybody knows what is wrong
with it.
Plus, unlike traditional software projects, the needs for a packages/srpms
repository are very few and somewhat fixed, so I could not grant bonus
points for a lot of the more esotheric features of the other SCMs.
That, coupled with reliability and readiness issues of other solutions
kind of locked us into CVS. I am sure that a lot of the issues I ran into
are now fixed, but as you all know by now, replacing infrastructure bits
while keeping the development going takes a lot of time.
It could very well be true that now the others are a better deal - but we
asked that question back in January-March, we came out with this answer
and we'll ride this one until it hits another critical point. At which
point we will evaluate again and we will go through another season of
pain...
Cristian
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