Distributed development toolset (Re: ArchiveReorganisation and sponsoring)

[Philip Wyett]

On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 18:30 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> 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
> 

I don't know so must ask. How many packages did that involve? If more
than half a dozen as I propose it may have been a bit 'run before being
able to walk' in some ways and been too much change in one go possibly.

Trust me, you will never hear "Trust me, it will be wonderful" pass my
lips with this kind of change. :-)

Regards

Phil
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