On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 07:49:27PM -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 10:15:26PM -0500, Jon Portnoy wrote:
> > A significant number of devs and users would be fairly likely to depart 
> > if we were relying on bitkeeper. The license terms are _highly_ 
> > authoritarian and controversial. I refuse to deal with the mess (and 
> > nasty PR) it would leave, personally.
> I'm suggesting BK only for keeping the kernel trees managable. Users
> will not see them in any form as they will only ever be downloading
> tarballs/patches from the gentoo mirrors.
> 

Users don't have to see the mainline kernel in BK, either, but there's 
still a BK flamewar there every two months or so.

> The upstream linux kernel itself is already in BK, so the point of users
> caring about something coming from BK isn't really valid. If the
> developers working on the kernel have no objections to trying BK, it
> could at least be given a chance for testing.

Sure it is. Check the lkml archives.

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