RFC: Package Review VCS

Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com
Tue Nov 20 14:32:24 UTC 2007


Josh Boyer wrote:
>> Josh Boyer wrote:
>>> The idea behind this is nice.  Using CVS to do it will suck.  
>> What about it exactly?
>> Using CVS as a tool again when we should be using a more modern VCS?
> 
> Yes.  The fact that you manually have to copy the history, which isn't
> all that important anyway, from one repo to another sucks and adds one
> more barrier before the package is in.

It isn't "one more barrier".  The amount of work needed to copy the 
history over is roughly equal to the current CVS admin procedure when 
scripted.  If the amount of work is roughly equal, then where is the 
drawback especially when it is not required to use it?

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com




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