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Announcing Specifix Inc.

Announcing Specifix Inc.

Posted Jul 16, 2004 7:37 UTC (Fri) by mbp (guest, #2737)
In reply to: Announcing Specifix Inc. by piman
Parent article: Announcing Specifix Inc.

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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