The reasonable answer I had previously from Paul Poulain about what alternative software version control systems had been considered in the past for Koha is that all such discussions had favoured CVS because it was most widely known. While the relatively small community of active Koha developers could learn to use a better tool than CVS, whatever that better choice might be, it would restrict the size of the development community to those who know or are willing to learn to use the superior software version control system. Koha should impose as few barriers to contribution as possible. Koha needs more contributors not fewer. The only way around this obstacle that I can see is the possibility of a superior version control system that is CVS command compatible or has a wrapper for CVS commands. If you know of such a CVS compatible system, that is better than CVS with a suitable reliable host or distributed hosts supporting the bandwidth consumption then you should identify such a system and the hosting support. Thomas D Quoting MJ Ray <mjr@phonecoop.coop> :
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Simon Mitchell <jseb.com@gmail.com>
Have you considered a move to svn?
If we are going to change version control, please move koha to a distributed system like arch or darcs.
The benefits of svn over cvs are minimal for a fairly mature project, the tools are far larger (like 5 times the size), it still has the single central server point of failure and if we want to upgrade later, there are fewer tools to upgrade from svn than cvs. Finally, it seems not GPL-compatible.
My savannah username is "slef". Please may I have write access to the new CVS? I will work on the new installer again in a week or so.
Best wishes, -- MJ Ray - personal email, see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Work: http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ irc.oftc.net/slef Jabber/SIP ask
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