Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Mar 2003 13:39:07 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: BitBucket: GPL-ed KitBeeper clone |
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Hi!
> > But anyway, don't you think Pavel is free to develop whatever free > > software he likes to develop instead of following you political > > agenda? > > What is the goal of the BitBucket project, though? > > To develop a version control system, or to annoy Larry?
To be able to access kernel version history without touching bk. Annoying Larry is just a side effect, altrough I agree selection of project name was "interesting" ;-).
> I haven't seen a single post to the list saying, "If we were designing > a version control system dedicated to the Linux kernel, what would you > like to see in it?". Before I started work on my bug database, I > spent a week or so discussing it on the list with people.
Apparently Linus, DaveM and Larry did just this, 2 years ago and offline. bk is result of that discussion.
> Why doesn't somebody start working on a dedicated kernel version > control system?
That's way harder than accessing kernel version history. I do not have time for *that*. Pavel -- Horseback riding is like software... ...vgf orggre jura vgf serr. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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