Shared pidgin releases and vcs-pkg

[Felipe Contreras]

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Richard Laager <rlaager at wiktel.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 14:13 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> Optionally, each package maintainer can push their patches to
>> this repository so that other people can easily fetch them, and
>> perhaps even share patches between distributions!
>
> This is an interesting idea. There was talk at UDSJaunty of Ubuntu
> wanting to do this distro-wide. Of course, they'd want to use BZR.
>
> Some downsides and points for discussion:
>
> 1) Competing DVCSes. Unless everyone is using the same one or you have
> really good tools that can keep multiple different repositories in sync,
> a lot of the benefits are lost.