Follow-up Comment #3, task #2974 (project savane):
> We already support the main SCM CVS, its replacement SVN, and
> the distributed one Arch. The offer should satisfies most
> needs.
As I said in the original submission, I think the usage of Arch is fading
out. Most people nowadays use its successor, bazaar, because it is much
simpler to use. Moreover, there are even better alternatives, which have
learned from the mistakes made by Arch, to provide even simpler and
straight-forward version control.
> Adding more SCM the way the previous were added would just be
> plain ugly. Such support should be modular, we cannot clutter
> the interface and database any more and add tons of database
> fields just to do things still the same way.
I'm afraid you got me wrong, then. I wasn't suggesting to add new fields to
the database. In fact, almost every field needed is already in the database.
The modular approach was just what I had in mind.
> Since there are no major site running Savane interested in
> such features...
If I remember correctly, there have been quite a few support requests on
Savannah to integrate the Arch version control system. It's just likely that
its successors are wanted, too.
To make this quite clear: all the needed infrastructure for this is *already*
in place, you can today just start right away using e.g. bazaar-ng with
Savane. The only thing I'd like to change is to have a nicer support
interface in the project's pages for it. We don't need to add menus for each
and every SCM, in fact, I discourage us to do so. There should be just *one*
menu item, called "Sources", which would link to the appropriate version
control system. Also, we wouldn't need to provide a web browsing mechanism
for that, like viewcvs.
> well, it is possible to implement it, but it is harly a
> priority :)
That's why I chose "Priority: Later" for this task ;-)
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