[fab] Fedora Project and Hosting

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 10:26 -0400, 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.
> 
I want to add something here.

I think the happy medium might be something like:
 cvs
 hg
 git

I'm not sure that svn offers us much over cvs, etc and I'm not sure what
bzr offers over hg or git.

-sv