On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Roland Dreier wrote:
> What would people think of removing the kernel drivers from our svn > tree? I see several reasons to do this: > > - Several groups are already using their own separate repositories > anyway, so svn doesn't have all of the latest and greatest anyway. > (For example both ehca and ipath are really maintained in private > repositories) I'm surprised. I didn't know that this was the case. Why are they using private repositories? Will moving to your git tree change this? > - Pulling patches out of svn to merge with a git tree generates extra > time-wasting busy-work, both for the submitter and for me. > > - svn kernel drivers dilute testing attention from the upstream > kernel, which means that upstream is not as high-quality as possible. > > Getting rid of svn would encourage new features to be developed as > self-contained patch sets, which makes an eventual upstream merge much > easier. And of course having git as our core repository would make > developing on a branch far far easier. > > - R. _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
