Re: kernel.bkbits.net off the air

[Samium Gromoff <deepfire@ibe.miee.ru>]

> On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 03:52:15PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
> > going to start a flame war.  So I won't.  I will note that none of the
> > solutions proposed come close to being acceptable, they all fail on NFS
> > and on SMB shares.  And they don't cascade properly as HPA has noted.
>
> FWIW arch would solve this completely too, but we need to checkout a
> coherent cvs to import the data into arch.

Okay, folks. Now i propose to go further than that.

I hope that Larry recognises that at some point the linux kernel community
_will_ switch to a free software alternative.

I think we should have a better choice than the lossy bk->cvs.

I propose we as a whole ask Larry to create a bk->arch gateway _not_ via cvs
but directly, and therefore using all the extended metadata possible.

	- this way we`ll get whole-tree changesets, file renames etc.
	- this way Larry will have a terrific argument to shut whiners.

The choice of Arch is not random, but motivated by my belief in that it is
the leading Free Software revision control effort.

If Larry wishes to give a birth to this idea, the list to contact is:

	gnu-arch-users@gnu.org

regards, Samium Gromoff