Heads-up: brand new RPM version about to hit rawhide

[Les Mikesell]

Josh Boyer wrote:
> 
>>>> Gee, I looked at Fedora's rpm CVS...wasn't a single bit of indication of
>>>> *any* activity of any sort there...makes a nice example of just how
>>>> broken and disconnected from modern SCM management our system currently
>>>> is.
>>> That's right, we wouldn't want to see inflight development in the HEAD
>>> of our package source control.  That rapidly gets in the way of doing
>>> mass rebuilds, scripted code compliance tests, targeted fixes strikes,
>>> etc, etc...
>>>
>>> Our package SCM is not a software development SCM.
>> Because you are not being in the least bit imaginative with branches
>> does not in the least justify the statement you are making.
> 
> OK, how about this:
> 
> Nobody has the time nor has anyone shown overwhelming benefits to rework
> our entire infrastructure to deal with a new SCM for _packages_ so that
> people can do code _development_ on them when that should all be done
> _upstream_.

Distributed SCMs don't change where the development work happens, they 
just eliminate much of the grunge work of picking up new changes along 
with the need to store a million point-in-time snapshot copies.

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   Les Mikesell
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