Re: [ros-kernel] Cleanup

[Iain S. <iai...@me...>]

On 5/29/02 6:09 PM, "Rex Jolliff" <re...@lv...> wrote:

> At 07:13 PM 5/28/02 -0700, you wrote:
>> Maybe we can switch to a better revision control system. There was an
>> article on slashdot about bitkeeper. It has a strange status (not open
>> source), but it is used for linux kernel.
> 
> I have looked at other revision control systems in the past, and didn't
> find any that meets my needs for free.  There is ClearCase if you want the
> Cadillac of such systems, but its a burden to configure and maintain,
> not to mention real pricey.  CVS has been around a long time and is
> solid and meets our needs.  It has the limitation that it cannot track
> movement of files, and I agree this is a nasty limitation to have, but
> we can live with it, as Jason or I will do the bulk moves needed to
> satisfy the new layout.

A non-open source but free to open source projects alternative is perforce
(www.perforce.com).  This is a commercial VCS that is simple, crossplatform,
powerful and fast fast fast.  The server is pretty much zero-administration.

It comes with a feature which lets you create trouble tickets (jobs) and
then associate them with changes so submissions close them.  You can
customize jobs to serve as a nice, lightweight bug tracking system, or use
their API to integrate with other bug tracking systems (they already have a
free  module to integrate with bugzilla).  You can move or rename files
while retaining history across these changes, etc etc etc.

The OpenWatcom.org project is using it and the watcom compiler project may
be a great partner for reactos (ming always feels like a poor second cousin
to a native windows compiler)...

Anyhow, just a suggestion.

-iain