From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <20000209013509.18757.qmail@web1006.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 17:35:09 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Bethe Subject: Re: the state of the linuxppc-dev community To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, jhaas@linuxppc.org, jcarr@linuxppc.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: > 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 ;-) ===== "Don't expect your own messiah; this neverworld which you desire is only in your mind." -- http://www.dreamtheater.net/songb4.htm#IV5 ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/