[OLPC-devel] OLPC development project organization. Status calls? Other techniques?

[Christopher Blizzard]

Stefan Reinauer wrote:
>> I think for a non-distributed repository it's pretty good.
> 
> I fully agree. Since we switched, all problems with version control have
> suddenly gone away. No single user request since we switched (before
> that we had to support gnu arch several hours per week)
> 
> A nice concept does not help if it produces so many obstacles that the
> time saved goes elsewhere. 
> 
> I was really impressed by the idea of distributed repositories when I
> first heard of GNU arch. But this solves a problem that in the reality
> of most software projects is not there.

I think that the Kernel is an interesting case in that it has had to 
scale to a higher number of participants than a lot of other free 
software projects have.  I'm sure we will all catch up at some point, 
but until then centralized is pretty good for most things.

--Chris