KDE Moves to BitKeeper

jonathan_ingram writes "After struggling for several months with a planned changeover from CVS to Subversion, the KDE team have abandoned the effort, and decided to move to BitKeeper instead. As KDE's press release states: "The KDE project had been using CVS for a number of years, but due to persistent and crippling limitations it was finally decided to convert the massive source repository to Subversion, a next-generation CVS clone with fewer limitations. Unfortunately, due to many unresolved issues and technical problems with Subversion, the move has proven impossible. After an intense internal debate, it was finally decided that BitKeeper would be the most appropriate choice for a new revision control system, given its proven superiority and track record in the Open Source community. BitKeeper has enjoyed wide-spread success and praise as the official source code repository for the GNU/Linux kernel."

Comments

April fools?

[b1t r0t]

If this is an April Fool's submission, then I don't know enough about any Subversion vs BitKeeper politics to get the joke.

A unified front against RMS

[EnronHaliburton2004]

RMS is pissed at hearing this news.

Since RMS never really respected KDE or Bitkeeper anyways, both products decided to team up and work together just to piss RMS off...

This is a big SHAME

[GNUALMAFUERTE]

Bitkeeper is PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE. How is this a good thing?. It doesn't matter if they get to pay for it or not. The most popular Free Software Desktop now depends on a proprietary tool to exist?. This doesn't really make any sense. They went through this nightmare once with QT (Back in the time where QT was proprietary), didn't they learn a damn thing?