not SVN?

[Alexander L. Belikoff]

On Monday 26 January 2004 07:41, Florian La Roche wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 07:07:56AM -0500, Alexander L. Belikoff wrote:
> > On Sunday 25 January 2004 00:28, Cristian Gafton wrote:
> > > - Installation of a CVS server and associated repositories as the
> > > primary interface for the developers.
> >
> > Hmm... I thought RedHat was going the way of early adoption of SVN?..
> > *This* could be the perfect moment to start eating our own dogfood. ;-)
>
> I have tried out svn and like it a lot. It is still pretty slow for me
> and the benefits to have branches in "real trees" is not really a
> big improvement.
> You need good support for -HEAD development and everything else should
> be just a few important bug-fixes and security fixes. cvs does fine
> for that.

I understand, but maybe we could still give Subversion a try?.. This would 
have the following advantages:

- We would be eating our own dogfood. I am confident this is a vital part of 
the product success. SVN is provided within the product, so using it for 
"real" stuff would display our confidence in the product.

- It would help Subversion as a product. Not a primary goal, obviously, but a 
good one.

- I am sure the Subversion developers will be more than thrilled to help such 
a high-profile showcase of their software. Based on my experience, they've 
always been very helpful so we should not assume it is going to be different 
in this case. 

- someone has to make the step and bite the bullet. Subversion needs exactly 
this last step that would move it into the spotlight as a legitimate 
successor of CVS. Redhat historically has been very brave in biting the 
bullet (glibc, kernel, XFree86, etc) which helped making it a popular and 
stable platform. This should be easier than glibc ;-)

- It would be much easier to try using it now than to switch later when the 
process has been established and some migration path is required.

So let me ask again - could we give it a try? If it doesn't work (and the SVN 
team cannot help us) - no problem, we'll go back to CVS. Obviously, by 
proposing this, I volunteer to help with setup, configuration, and the basic 
SCM process in case my help is needed.

Cheers,

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