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From: Robert Buchholz <rbu@g.o>
To: gentoo-scm@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-scm] Re: Welcome to Gentoo-SCM discussion, for figuring out Gentoo beyond CVS
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:11:19
Message-Id: 200810061911.03213.rbu@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-scm] Re: Welcome to Gentoo-SCM discussion, for figuring out Gentoo beyond CVS by Alec Warner
1 On Monday 06 October 2008, Alec Warner wrote:
2 > On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 2:50 AM, Thilo Bangert <bangert@g.o>
3 wrote:
4 > > i am not opposed to the idea of layout changes; its just not my
5 > > personal itch (right now). and quite frankly - i dont see anybody
6 > > else here, whose itch it is...
7 >
8 > It is mine ;)
9 >
10 > > our current VCS is inhibiting development and innovation. our repo
11 > > layout is not!
12 >
13 > I would say it is (exherbo is a half-decent example of something I
14 > think is better).
15
16 What problems are we trying to solve?
17 Why is the exherbo approach better?
18
19 More specific questions:
20 * How fine-grained do you want the repositories to be?
21 * Who controls access?
22 * How is QA being done?
23 * Who defines what is "officially supported"
24 (right now it is "in the tree, not p.masked")
25 * What about global data (the non-cache files in metadata, eclasses)?
26
27 Robert

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