They use an older version of Perforce which they've made custom changes to in order to support their Lovecraftian proces
A Lovecraftian process is an exceedingly appropriate name for the CMMI family of processes, in particular. I think I'll borrow it.
How did they change Perforce - does it come with source code, or did they wrap it with layers of toxic software the way BitKeeper wraps SCCS?
Must Die 98 is an exceedingly appropriate name for Must Die 98, in particular.
I think I'll share a couple of dialogs with the sysadmin who coined the term with the list - an example of hate at the software/wetware boundaries.
It hasn't hosted the kernel source in, what, nearly two years now?
That's my point. The kernel was purged from bk, but the time it was kept there was enough for BitMover to gain commercial customers. That's because having the kernel there created some hype, and I've seen Linux weenies contributing to it. Which doesn't mean they all did.
BitKeeper could have been the best free (of charge) source control system, but for something you pay for, it's a bad joke. Have you seen it's user interface? When you "pull" changes, for example, it prints 10 screens of messages, with error messages buried somewhere between screen 3 and screen 4. People don't even NOTICE these errors, and live for weeks under the false impression that they're synchronized with something, when in fact their "pulls" keep failing. I guess they are supposed to check $status.
And that's nothing. I could go on and on. "Kernel hacker's GUIs", HA!
