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Re: increasing the number of GCC reviewers

From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
Cc: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>, Basile STARYNKEVITCH <basile at starynkevitch dot net>, GCC Mailing List <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:34:00 -0600
Subject: Re: increasing the number of GCC reviewers
References: <4A2E8528.8090604@starynkevitch.net> <m3ws7lqeao.fsf@google.com> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0906100024090.13715@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>
Reply-to: tromey at redhat dot com

>>>>> "Joseph" == Joseph S Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> writes:

Ian> I believe that the most useful immediate thing we could do to speed up
Ian> gcc development would be to move to a distributed version control
Ian> system.

Joseph> We haven't even finished the last version control system
Joseph> transition (wwwdocs is still using CVS), it's not long since
Joseph> we started it and there is as yet no one clear winner in the
Joseph> world of DVCSes, so another transition would seem rather
Joseph> premature.

There will never be a clear winner.  git and hg are in wide use on big
projects.  Either one would probably work reasonably for gcc.  Neither
is likely to kill off the other.

Tom

References:
- increasing the number of GCC reviewers
  - From: Basile STARYNKEVITCH
- Re: increasing the number of GCC reviewers
  - From: Ian Lance Taylor
- Re: increasing the number of GCC reviewers
  - From: Joseph S. Myers

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