Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 09:29:47 +0900
> Cc: Tassilo Horn <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> > To start using git, we need first get to the point the Linux kernel
> > developers are at: lots of developers independently developing all
> > kinds of extensions.  _And_ we need a head maintainer who works on
> > nothing else but integration of features she likes into the product
> > that is eventually released.
> 
> No we don't (how on earth did you reach that conclusion ?!).

AFAIK, this is how Linux kernel development works, and that is the
single most important basis for the git philosophy.

> Git, like most modern source control systems, is pretty much a
> _superset_ of CVS, and can happily be used with a CVS-like "central
> server" (where it still handily beats the pants of CVS in almost every
> respect).

IMO, it hardly makes sense to switch, then, and it's not what Tassilo
had in mind and put in writing, AFAIU.