Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

["James Henstridge" <james jamesh id au>]

2009/1/6 Josselin Mouette <joss debian org>:
> Le mardi 06 janvier 2009 à 17:21 +0900, James Henstridge a écrit :
>> I'd hope that any DVCS would get a larger user base than current list
>> of active Subversion committers: anyone who contributes patches via
>> mailing lists or bugzilla could use a DVCS the same way as a core
>> developer.  The same could go for anyone who does distribution
>> packaging.
>
> That's foolish. We are certainly not going to clone 208 repositories for
> all GNOME packages we maintain. Especially when the tools to manage
> Debian packages with DVCSes are still inferior to those we have for the
> current svn+tarball scheme.

As I mentioned later on in the post you quoted, not everyone in these
groups will use a DVCS even if it is available: the existing patch
based work flows should work equally well compared to the status quo.

That said, there are definitely members of these groups who will use a
DVCS if it is available.

James.