Subversion? (Re: HEADS UP: Importing csup into base)

[Scott Long]

Ollivier Robert wrote:
> According to Joseph Koshy:
> 
>>A 'distributed' VCS with good support for branching and merging would
>>ease the work of our non-committer volunteers.
> 
> 
> And RE's work by not freezing trees.  And all developpers' work by having
> the trees not frozen for weeks.

The release process is just an important as the normal development 
process.  We could completely do away with code freezes and let
people commit just like normal.  There is little technical reason
to have a code freeze.

HOWEVER

The purpose of the code freeze is to slow down developers and get
them thinking more about what they are doing and focusing more on
bugs rather than new features.  This has nothing to do with the
limitations or features of the VCS in use, it is purely a management
tool.  We could be use OMG-VCS that cooks breakfast and does your
laundry as well as is the best VCS software on the planet, and there
would still be code freezes.

So, please do not drag RE into this as a justification for anything.
K, thx.

Scott