When will be CVS replaced by modern version control system?

[Casey Dahlin]

Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:08:35 -0500
> Simo Sorce <ssorce at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 19:19 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>     
>>> On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 18:19 +0100, Matej Cepl wrote:
>>>       
>>>> On 2007-11-08, 14:33 GMT, Lubomir Kundrak wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>>>>> any plans to replace it by git, mercurial, svn or other 
>>>>>>>> more modern version control system?
>>>>>>>>                 
>>>>>> - CVS server outage :)
>>>>>>             
>>>>> Other services never have outages?
>>>>>           
>>>> They don't -- have you ever heard about distributed VC? If the 
>>>> repository I am working against has outage, then I don't care.
>>>>         
>>> And how do you pull/push if the remote server is down?
>>>       
>> You commit locally and keep working.
>> When the repo is up you push down everything in one go.
>>
>> If you need patches from others they can share their repo or send you
>> mails that keep the whole meta-data.
>>
>> DVCS really have *no* problems with outages. Only centralized VCS has.
>>     
>
> It does.  Our buildsys requires a single repository to pull (or
> checkout) from to do builds.  So until your changes are present in
> there, you still suffer from the "outage" problem if you want to
> actually build packages for others to consume in the official repos.
>
>   
This, as Red Hat's GIT-RE team is learning, is because the notion of a 
distributed build system hasn't really been spec'd out. I have some 
notion of how to do it, and I've almost figured out a workflow with 
buildbot.
> josh
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