[fab] Fedora Project and Hosting

[Christopher Blizzard]

seth vidal wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 10:23 -0400, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
> 
>> I don't think it's as tough as that.  For example, we should really have 
>> a git repo that fedora developers (including red hat folks!) can use. 
>> If nothing else, being able to interact with the kernel, x.org and a 
>> host of other projects is enough reason alone to just host that one thing.
>>
>> And I think that we don't have to worry about the whole big picture 
>> here.  We're not trying to compete with sourceforge, nor should we try. 
>>   But we should be facilitating individuals to get shit done.  And a 
>> variety of SCMs do just that.
>>
> 
> It also makes it so people have to chase down a bunch of different scm
> tools just to be able to work on multiple projects in fedora.
> 
> That's sad-face-making, too.
> 
> Increasing complexity raises barriers to entry just as much as limiting
> the complexity overly-much does.
> 
> There's a happy medium in there. One of every one isn't it.

Agreed completely.  Once again, in concrete terms:

o Do you think that supporting git is important?
o How about TLA? (or whatever it's called these days)
o monotone?

Just three examples of SCMs that are in use today.  What would you say 
to each of those?

--Chris