Introduction to Ubuntu Distributed Development

[Adrian Perez]

I would like to have several DVCS for ubuntu development as we do in
debian. We all have personal preference, and there's a main principle
which says "working as a team, try to not make people fight their own
tools", which for me means fighting against Git, and for other devs
fighting against hg, monotone, etc. 
Also, I'm not blind to the advantage of centralizing stuff and making
working on random packages easier because you're always using Bazaar (or
whatever the VCS will eventually be). 
So, I might propose to have a voting on which VCS system we will use for
our centralized approach, (if that hasn't happened already).

On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 06:15 -0600, Patrick Goetz wrote:
> > Subject: Introduction to Ubuntu Distributed Development
> > From: James Westby <jw+debian at jameswestby.net>
> > Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:40:34 +0000
> > To: ubuntu-devel <ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com>
> >
> > The TL;DR version:
> > 
> >   1) Version Control rocks.
> >   2) Distributed version control rocks even more.
> >   3) Bazaar rocks particularly well.
> >   4) Let's use Bazaar for Ubuntu.
> > 
> 
> There's no question that distributed version control rocks, but I'm 
> wondering what drove the decision to develop/maintain bazaar?  We've 
> been using Mercurial to good effect (http://mercurial.selenic.com/) -- 
> awesome, easy to use GPL product with superb graphical change tracking 
> features, and there's always git for the purest of the pure.
> 
> Given the chronic shortage of developers to work on various things, it 
> seems imprudent to devote resources to re-inventing the wheel...
> 
> 


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Best Regards,

Adrian Perez <adrianperez-deb at ubuntu.com>
Ubuntu Developer

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