On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 07:11:26PM -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 06:36:39PM -0600, Brian Jackson wrote:
> > We can't really subject cvs.gentoo.org to the kind of abuse that 5 kernel 
> > trees would introduce. Subversion isn't an option (and I'd assume that arch, 
> > and others isn't either).
> What about BK?
> BK works much better than CVS/Subversion for kernels, and don't see any
> major reasons not to use it.
> 

The major reason not to use it is that it would rip apart the project.

A significant number of devs and users would be fairly likely to depart 
if we were relying on bitkeeper. The license terms are _highly_ 
authoritarian and controversial. I refuse to deal with the mess (and 
nasty PR) it would leave, personally.

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Jon Portnoy
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