Distributed development toolset (Re: ArchiveReorganisation and sponsoring)

Scott Kitterman ubuntu at kitterman.com
Thu Sep 4 20:42:01 BST 2008


On Thursday 04 September 2008 06:30, Colin Watson wrote:
> 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
>

Thanks for publishing this.  I have some comments that I'll discuss with 
James.  It will be interesting to see how this all plays out.

Scott K



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