Re: The Great Kernel CVS Mutiny

2002-02-09 Thread Oded Arbel
- Original Message - From: Adi Stav [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 02:20:37PM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: BTW: there is a little non-free license issue with BitKeeper. From what I understand, the license of BitKeeper is basicaly a free license, but requires that you

Re: The Great Kernel CVS Mutiny

2002-02-09 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Oded Arbel wrote: - Original Message - From: Adi Stav [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 02:20:37PM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: BTW: there is a little non-free license issue with BitKeeper. From what I understand, the license of BitKeeper is basicaly

Re: The Great Kernel CVS Mutiny

2002-02-07 Thread Ely Levy
Goldshmidt wrote: Well, it seems that The Great Kernel CVS Mutiny led Linus to BitKeeper... http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/06/1341250mode=thread I should add that by CVS I meant any decent source control system and BitKeepter seems to fit this description

Re: The Great Kernel CVS Mutiny

2002-02-07 Thread Ely Levy
, Shlomi Fish Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Shlomi Fish wrote: On 6 Feb 2002, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Well, it seems that The Great Kernel CVS Mutiny led Linus to BitKeeper... http://slashdot.org/article.pl

Re: The Great Kernel CVS Mutiny

2002-02-07 Thread mulix
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Ely Levy wrote: there is no kernel of any OS that I know that only one person decide usualy there are few people and a voting involved. designed by a comittee is *not* a compliment. not mention that not EVERY patch goes to the that person neither should every patch go

Re: The Great Kernel CVS Mutiny

2002-02-07 Thread Ely Levy
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, mulix wrote: On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Ely Levy wrote: there is no kernel of any OS that I know that only one person decide usualy there are few people and a voting involved. designed by a comittee is *not* a compliment. comittee? more like crow see other kernels as

Re: The Great Kernel CVS Mutiny

2002-02-07 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Ely Levy wrote: there is no kernel of any OS that I know that only one person decide usualy there are few people and a voting involved. not mention that not EVERY patch goes to the that person 1. Linus's linux is just a kernel, not a complete OS (as oppsed to the BSDs

Re: The Great Kernel CVS Mutiny

2002-02-07 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2. Linus has the final word on what goes into the official kernel tree. But the kernel is distributed under the GPL, and this means that anybody is free to fork it. And IIRC Linus has gone on record many times encouraging forking. I am not

Re: The Great Kernel CVS Mutiny

2002-02-06 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Well, it seems that The Great Kernel CVS Mutiny led Linus to BitKeeper... http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/06/1341250mode=thread -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If it ain't broken, it has not got enough features yet

Re: The Great Kernel CVS Mutiny

2002-02-06 Thread Shlomi Fish
On 6 Feb 2002, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Well, it seems that The Great Kernel CVS Mutiny led Linus to BitKeeper... http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/06/1341250mode=thread I should add that by CVS I meant any decent source control system and BitKeepter seems to fit this description

Re: The Great Kernel CVS Mutiny

2002-02-06 Thread Shaul Karl
I discovered other things I don't like about the way the kernel was maintained since the original mutiny call, but they are relatively minor in comparison to using a source control system. Regards, Shlomi Fish I would like to read about those other things you dislike as it

Re: The Great Kernel CVS Mutiny

2002-02-06 Thread Shlomi Fish
are LKML members). I've requested the sys-admins of vipe.technion.ac.il to arrange for me to have some arrangement so I'll be able to read the LKML messages there, but it has not been put forth yet. You can check the Linux-IL archives, (in the Great Kernel CVS Mutiny thread) and read my comments to see

Re: The Great Kernel CVS Mutiny

2002-01-20 Thread Adi Stav
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 08:33:33AM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: I disagree with your claims. And by raising the flag of mutiny I do not intend to demand them. I intend to implement a system that will make them a reality. This is a productive mutiny, in which people do something instead of

Re: The Great Kernel CVS Mutiny

2002-01-19 Thread mulix
[/me replies against my better judgement. oh well] On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Shlomi Fish wrote: I believe that the way things are done in the kernel development have to change in many ways to make its maintainance more scalable and straightforward. There should be: why should its maintanence be

Some re-thoughts (was: Re: The Great Kernel CVS Mutiny)

2002-01-19 Thread Omer Zak
After writing my previous message about the subject, I have other thoughts. The problem, which triggered the mutiny discussions, is the fact that Linus was not always prompt in accepting bugfix patches. So some subsystems remained buggy (even if there was no dispute which bugfix patch to

Re: The Great Kernel CVS Mutiny

2002-01-19 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, mulix wrote: [/me replies against my better judgement. oh well] On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Shlomi Fish wrote: I believe that the way things are done in the kernel development have to change in many ways to make its maintainance more scalable and straightforward. There

Re: The Great Kernel CVS Mutiny

2002-01-19 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Even though off-topic (as was the whole of this thread), I can't stop myself to say a few things: 1. The first, and most important: I was subscribed to lkml for a few weeks, and quickly unsubscribed. I do read every issue of Kernel Traffic (http://kt.zork.net), since issue 1 (three years ago),

RE: The Great Kernel CVS Mutiny

2002-01-19 Thread Tzahi Fadida
Without repeating or attaching what was said, I think that a simple approach would do the trick. Linux as opposed to corporation politics is an evolutionary organism were the strongest and best survive. There is no need for any mutiny, if Linux wasn't working well the organism would take steps

Re: The Great Kernel CVS Mutiny

2002-01-19 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Adi Stav wrote: On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 03:23:59PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, mulix wrote: why should its maintanence be more scalable and straightforward? scalability is a nice buzzword, but so is quality, cohesion, direction, which linus

The Great Kernel CVS Mutiny

2002-01-18 Thread Shlomi Fish
I've just been to Moshe Bar's lecture, which was an excellent lecture. One of the things that were said in the beginning is that Linus Torvalds has become inefficient in accepting important patches made to the kernel. For instance, Moshe said that he has cron job that sends a group of patches to

Re: The Great Kernel CVS Mutiny

2002-01-18 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Heard about BitKeeper? Ingo uses it, as well as other people. Linus is actually thinking to use it once larry mcvoy will finish implementing some features (other people who use it are RedHat, IBM among others) Hetz = To

Re: The Great Kernel CVS Mutiny

2002-01-18 Thread Eran Man
linuxppc uses BitKeeper also. DaveM (Sparc, Networking maintainer) uses CVS. Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Heard about BitKeeper? Ingo uses it, as well as other people. Linus is actually thinking to use it once larry mcvoy will finish implementing some features (other people who use it are

Re: The Great Kernel CVS Mutiny

2002-01-18 Thread Omer Zak
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Shlomi Fish wrote about the need for a Great Kernel CVS Mutiny and since then things never were the same...: [... details were snipped ...] This is a classical problem of wanting to eat a cake and have it, too. We all want Linus to continue to lead the kernel development

Re: The Great Kernel CVS Mutiny

2002-01-18 Thread Shlomi Fish
[ ... Really Long Letter Snipped ... ] Please refer to the following lecture, which talks about the engineering of Win2K: http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix-win2000/invitedtalks/lucovsky_html/ I spotted the link thru a post Chen made to Hackers-IL, and it also appeared on the