Distributed development toolset (Re: ArchiveReorganisation and sponsoring)

[Scott Kitterman]

On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:40:36 +0100 Philip Wyett <philwyett at gmx.com> wrote:
....
>Maybe a trial set of maybe half a dozen packages that are in Ubuntu
>version control presently could be used as a test bed to see how much of
>an effect it does make over the development and package processes.
>
I've already been somewhat involved in this.  For Gutsy this was tried with 
the all the core KDE packages for Kubuntu.  I ended up begging a sponsor 
into taking a debdiff (I wasn't a core-dev then) and Kubuntu as a whole 
gave it up.

I'm not randomly fearful of this kind of change.  I've already been through 
one round of "Trust me, it will be wonderful".

Scott K