Fedora 14 branching and dist-git roll out

[Brandon Lozza]

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 10:28 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 15:31 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 09:10:24AM -0400, Brandon Lozza wrote:
>> > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 2:54 AM, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
>> > > Hey all!  It's that time again, we're gearing up to branch for Fedora 14
>> > > this coming Tuesday!  There is a major twist this time around, we're
>> > > going to attempt a roll out of dist-git!
>> > --snipped---
>> >
>> > I'm just curious but would this allow someone to more easily fork the
>> > distro? (think of stuff like Mint)
>>
>> The ability to fork {packages|kernels|distros} is a good thing.  It
>> keeps the software lively and keeps the purveyors of software honest.
>> I enjoyed reading Rick Moen's essay on the subject:
>>
>> http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Licensing_and_Law/forking.html
>
> Also, of course, one of the truisms about git is that it doesn't only
> make it easier to *fork*: it makes it easier to *merge*. So even if the
> change does let people fork Fedora more easily, it also lets us
> incorporate their changes and bring them back into mainline more easily
> too.
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And vice versa :)