Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:13:45 -0400 From: Chris BeHanna <chris@behanna.org> To: chat@freebsd.org Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Public Access to Perforce? Message-ID: <200408181613.45680.chris@behanna.org> In-Reply-To: <fe77c96b04081812431b48c473@mail.gmail.com> References: <200408160104.03708.chris@behanna.org> <20040818192905.GA44432@xor.obsecurity.org> <fe77c96b04081812431b48c473@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wednesday 18 August 2004 15:43, David Rhodus wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 12:29:05 -0700, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
wrote:
> > So you'd be happy if we changed the name of the FreeBSD perforce repo
> > to - say - LibreBSD, and charged people for access? This would bring
> > it in line with the DragonFly/FireFly model.
>
> You know, that might not be a bad idea you have there, I think you
> might be on to something. Possibly a way fbsd could possibly complete
> it's fine grain locking task ?
I just want to go on record as distancing myself from the
preposterous notion that a lack of non-committer access to the p4 repo
makes FreeBSD no longer an open-source project.
I use p4 at work, and I love it. IMHO, it's far and away superior
to CVS, and the proxies make it possible to offer up-to-the-submission
up-to-dateness to the source tree while minimizing load on the master
server, unlike the "wait an hour for the repo mirror to propagate, and
it might propagate mid-commit" method that exists now.
My sole motivation is my own convenience. In return, I have
submitted (and will continue to submit) patches as I am able (thus
far, a few of my patches have made it into the ports tree). I am also
willing, as I've stated on current@, to donate a portion of the cost
of a new disk, if that's needed, to my local mirror to support running
p4proxy there.
--
Chris BeHanna
Software Engineer (Remove "bogus" before responding.)
chris@bogus.behanna.org
Turning coffee into software since 1990.
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