On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:34:41PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > I like the idea. > > It would lower the barrier to begin coding on the hurd (I think), and it > would > be a good opportunity to clean up the cvs chaos a bit (so newcomers don't get > completely lost in the different repositories). > > Also it has the advantage to remove the central point of failure, which feels > very Hurd-like to me: Everyone has a full copy of the repository, and only > the reference repository is under central control.
Well, CVS is certainly doomed, but I don't think the above two points are strong arguments. Probably gnumach-1-branch should be moved back to HEAD, yes, but otherwise, the CVS looks pretty decent to me (note that glibc still manages to use CVS, which is a far bigger project commit and code-wise). Also, a central repo is not much of a SPOF, if Savannah goes down with all its backups, we got bigger problems than worrying about the Hurd I guess. Michael
