On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> wrote:
[moved to developers' list]
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com> wrote:
May I suggest that to keep signal/noise ratio on the list to acceptable level, we don't have a general VC shootout discussion. It will never lead to anything.
+1, but I don't think anyone intended to do that.
Rather, the parties interested in having Boost switch to any version control system that is not SVN should propose a specific plan, including hosting, administration, adjustment of all scripts, new workflows for Boost maintainers and authors of proposed libraries, etc?
If would be seriously not funny if 1000 messages later we'll find that git is about to solve every problem on earth, but there's nobody to do *complete* transition and onging maintenance.
I think what you've just said is an important part of the discussion we should be having right here and now.
As a start -- which is still a Work-in-Progress -- I have this: https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/DistributedDevelopmentProcess in the Wiki. Hopefully I can get more feedback on that before I move on. Basically that document will cover all that you're asking above. I'd love to hear other people's contribution to the matter -- and if you want to, you can edit the wiki directly to add your specific contributions/edits to the stuff already there. HTH -- Dean Michael Berris about.me/deanberris