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Subject: Re: Public Access to Perforce?
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On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 05:57:19PM +0400, Roman Kurakin wrote:
> > I fully agree with you. But this not affect "open source"ness.
> > I'd rather call it open development.
> 
> If the change history(*) is locked up in a form that doesn't provide
> ready access, there's no distinction. 
> 
> (*) noting of course that for many projects the change history comments
>     are worthless. 

You'll notice that developers using Perforce are careful to include
complete change desriptions when changes are merged to CVS.  Often, better
ones, because the changes are complete.  It's not necessary to commit
every mistake to CVS, which is a large part of what Perforce allows us to
avoid.  This is intentional: FreeBSD developers consider CVS to be the
"real" repository, and Perforce to be a working area in which to explore
ideas before merging to CVS.

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org      Principal Research Scientist, McAfee Research