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Announcing Specifix Inc.Announcing Specifix Inc.Posted Jul 14, 2004 20:23 UTC (Wed) by piman (subscriber, #8957)Parent article: Announcing Specifix Inc. > The rise of distributions such as Fedora and Gentoo has moved the development of Linux distributions from small, tightly-connected groups to widely-dispersed groups of informal collaborators. Yeah, crazy tightly-connected tiny Debian... Oh wait.
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Announcing Specifix Inc. Posted Jul 16, 2004 7:37 UTC (Fri) by mbp (subscriber, #2737) [Link] Yeah, that is kind of dumb. But I think the SCM comparison is illuminating. Debian has very much the kind of problems you might expect from a single big CVS branch with many contributors.It takes a long time to get it stable to release, it's hard to tell when it will be stable, and it takes a long time to get back there next time. Sometimes particular features (XFree 4.3) take a very very long time to merge, even though they're internally stable enough that a large fraction of people want them. Another example: there's no easy way to get testing+security patches. Something modelled more on Monotone might be a better approach.
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