Re: distributed version control

[Thomas Weber]

Am Donnerstag, den 17.01.2008, 07:36 +0100 schrieb Kim Hansen:
> On Jan 16, 2008 11:25 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On 16-Jan-2008, Thomas Weber wrote:
> >
> > I tried "hg convert" on the Octave CVS archive and it did not seem to
> > work properly.  Now I'm trying to do a cvs -> svn -> hg conversion to
> > see if that works any better.  But I'm a novice here, so I'm not sure
> > I'm doing all the right things.
> 
> I have just registered octave in launchpad.net (Ubuntus/Canonicals
> version of sourceforge.net), I guess that within a day they will
> convert the cvs to bzr, then it will be easy to test if bzr is as slow
> as its reputation. The source will end up being accessible from this
> url:
>   https://launchpad.net/octave/trunk
> 
> I am a novice at launchpad, I have started using it two days ago in
> order see if it is a good place to host a small open source project.
> It looks like they have a bug tracking system also and it looks really
> polished, but I still don't know if it is good.

Yes, it looks polished. And every time I look at it, the following comes
to my mind:

        You shall not make users jump through hoops if they want 
        to report a bug. 

That is, a login is a no-op for me (I already have way too many accounts
with too many passwords).

        Thomas