Introduction to Ubuntu Distributed Development

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Reinventing the wheel might be a good idea if the wheel then rolls faster

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Scott James Remnant <scott at ubuntu.com>wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 08:58 -0500, Adrian Perez wrote:
>
> > 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).
> >
> Bazaar was designed and written to be the distributed version control
> system for distributions, in particular Ubuntu.  There is an enormous
> amount of infrastructure built up around it, and a large number of
> people working on it.
>
> We do not presume (as a community) to tell people what they should and
> should not be working on.  If those people are happy working on Bazaar,
> then that is entirely their decision.  We would not hold a vote to tell
> people to stop what they are doing.
>
>
> If another group of people were to work on GIT, Mercurial or some new
> DVCS - making improvements to better suit a distribution, and were to
> put the same amount of work into building an infrastructure around it,
> then that is entirely their choice.
>
> Having two competing infrastructures would be cause for a discussion
> amongst the Technical Board about which one (if either) we recommended.
>
>
> Personally (as a member of the TB), in that situation, I'd be more
> likely to ask why the GIT or Mercurial folk didn't instead leverage the
> existing bzr infrastructure.  For example, by adding support to their
> DVCS to be able to pull from and push to the LP server.
>
> That way users could use whichever command-line tool they wanted, and
> we'd all have access to the same branches.
>
> Scott
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