Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 22:01:10 -0300 From: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com> To: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@freebsd.org> Cc: perryh@pluto.rain.com, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> Subject: Re: Distributed Version Control for ports(7) ( was: Re: autoconf update ) Message-ID: <AANLkTikDLtjaCgM_Cz65%2B2UGHOYaOMDJ7gUugAZ%2BXPV2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100919123435.0b79c3f1@it.buh.tecnik93.com> References: <4C91446F.3090202@bsdforen.de> <20100916171744.GA48415@hades.panopticon> <4C927ED0.5050307@bsdforen.de> <86zkvhfhaa.fsf@gmail.com> <4C92C14D.3010005@FreeBSD.org> <4C92F195.5000605@FreeBSD.org> <4C93A107.4070809@DataIX.net> <4c93f602.pzTXVEQ%2B3q2cRA23%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <4C94617B.3080702@bsdforen.de> <20100918141727.22a81b66@it.buh.tecnik93.com> <4C95AFE4.30608@DataIX.net> <20100919123435.0b79c3f1@it.buh.tecnik93.com>
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On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 02:38:28 -0400 > jhell <jhell@DataIX.net> wrote: > >> On 09/18/2010 07:17, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: >> > >> > I'm still to see a concise, clear, precise, listing of advantages >> > that switching from CVS would bring us, >> > that would overcome the effort needed to do it (committers, users, >> > infrastructure, tools). >> >> >> 1). http://bit.ly/d5UrtN >> >> 2). http://www.keltia.net/BSDCan/paper.pdf >> >> 3). http://bit.ly/97 >> Y8Xi >> >> Make your final comparison here: >> http://bit.ly/cyQBn8 > >>> > concise, clear, precise, listing of advantages, that switching from CVS > would bring _us_ >>> > > I have to work daily with 3-4 (D)VCSes for my work and OSS work, so I'm > pretty well aware of some good and some bad points of each. > >> 4). Because CVS just does not do any of this. > > Neither does any of them make coffee or pick up girls for me, but this > neither here nor there, since we're talking about advantages - of > switching - for ports. > General "this is why $VCS is the coolest" and general features matrix > are only the starting point. You can keep discussing this subject forever, using this kind of argument. The point here is not if a DVCS is better than CVS or not. It is if FreeBSD ports will keep using CVS or move to something else, preferably a DCVS. This move will happen if - and only if - somebody volunteers to to the work or get paid to do it. So I suggest you to 1. Define what must be done, as well as a deadline. 2. Calculate the amount necessary to pay somebody with the right skills to do the work. 3. Create a bounty to raise the required funds. 4. Start working on the task. And yes, I'd happily donate some money to such initiative.
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