[Monotone-devel] OpenEmbedded looking to jump ship

[Justin Patrin]

It seems that some of the folks at OpenEmbedded are now grumbling
about use of monotone again and that some of our key developers are
looking to switch to something else (hg or git)[1]. The main point of
contention seems to revolve around, as we've seem lately on this list,
getting rid of revisions. In this particular case a revision had been
distributed that made unwanted changes. It was a head revision and was
suspended by a developer but other developers who had versions of
monotone prior to the suspend functionality blindly merged it with
their code, causing a chain of suspensions/removals that was
eventually fixed with a reverse patch.

I'm sad to see OpenEmbedded moving away from monotone as I still like
many of the things about it. Some or all of the problems cropped up
could possibly have been fixed with various parts of the "policy
branch" cloud of features. Are we anywhere near close on getting any
of that done?

[1] 
http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-devel/2008-April/005213.html

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Justin Patrin