New VCS Choice; SCM SIG

[Josh Boyer]

On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 17:03 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 16:20 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > Le Mar 23 janvier 2007 15:00, Ralf Corsepius a écrit :
> > 
> > > So, all in all, you should better make all these VCS stuff entirely
> > > transparent (Implement applications around it), or you'd better off
> > > using something standardized, ... which ATM, would reduce the choice to
> > > svn or CVS.
> > 
> > A lot of big projects (Linux, Xorg, Java VM, etc)
> ... all comparatively small in comparison to Fedora ...
> 
> A Fedora package VCS is comparatively simple, but it's BIG, very BIG.

Big how?

Storage size? (I doubt it given that the tarballs for the packages
aren't even stored in the SCM.  They're stored in the lookaside cache.)

Number of files? (I highly doubt we have more files stored in SCM than
the kernel or X.org)

Number of users?

What exactly do you mean by big?

josh