Re: the state of the linuxppc-dev community

[Dan Bethe <dan_bethe@yahoo.com>]

> Except that the server is never current, yes.  The _only_ place right now
> with any sort of current sources is in bitkeeper trees.  So once bk is
> released, things should look a bit better.

	Hi, Tom.  Freshmeat.net tells me that bitkeeper at
http://www.bitmover.com/bitkeeper/.  This is the official maintenance tool for
the generic Linux kernel, right?  If I understand you correctly, it sounds like
LinuxPPC is moving to bitkeeper as well, once bitkeeper 1.0 is out.
	Does this mean that the intermediary unofficial LinuxPPC-specific code will be
also located on the same Bitkeeper server as the generic kernel all the way?
So that even if there is some PPC code that is not [yet] community-tested and
Linus-approved, we will still check it out from an alternate "line of
development" on the same bitkeeper server?
	It sounds to me like, in general, bitkeeper intends to supercede or obsolete
CVS.
	Thanks for the info.  And many thanks to everyone who's responded today.  This
is the kind of cooperation we're looking for.  Gabe and I are going to take the
facts that everyone's painstakingly outlined (thanks, BenH) and make unifying
docs, to be served from linuxppc.org, hopefully to everyone's approval.
	We were also planning on setting up a CVS server for linuxppc.org, but I'm
gathering that that is unnecessary due to the upcoming use of bitkeeper.  Any
confirmation or comments on that?
	We'll still make sure that linuxppc.org has a good internal server setup, and
to help manage the userspace stuff even better.  We can install a bugtracking
system.  I've only extensively used GNATS, but I'm thinking about trying
Bugzilla (www.bugzilla.org) at my current workplace.
	And finally, I'm glad people responded positively and optimistically.  That's
my main attitude.  Within an hour, I got at least 5 private responses that
basically say "Amen".  Just like each of the several times I've already sent
out varying degrees of interrogation observation to the linuxppc.org community.
	I don't ever mean to be harsh, no matter how many non-positives I may ever
point out to anyone about anything.  We just need for the bazaar to be less
bizarre  ;-)

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