Distributed development toolset (Re: ArchiveReorganisation and sponsoring)

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Thu Sep 4 11:30:45 BST 2008


On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 09:08:30PM +0100, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> Revision control has been a best practice for software development for over
> 20 years, and for good reason.  The fact that Debian and Ubuntu don't use it
> in a consistent or standard fashion has always been an unfortunate wart in
> our development process, and fixing it is something to look forward to.

For those who haven't seen it yet (it was internal for a while, and we
took a bit too long to publish it due to some communication glitches),
the current design intended to achieve this was recently published here:

  https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/distributed-development

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]



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