[fab] Fedora Project and Hosting

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Fri Oct 20 14:26:58 UTC 2006


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.

-sv





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