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

Enough....

[xlr8ed]

It's not even funny anymore...

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.

Re:April fools?

[jarich]

ya gotta read the article... but in case it's down, here are a few of the funnier parts:

KDE e.V. board member Mirko Bohemian stated, "Following our licencing deal with BitMover, we expect our developers will be twice as productive, just as the GNU kernel developers are now." Linus Torvalds was not available for comment.

The only significant drawback of the deal is that KDE developers will not be allowed to work on or contribute to any other source control systems as mandated by the BitKeeper license. To comply with this requirement, KDE has temporarily removed Cervisia from the kdesdk module until the CVS support can be replaced by full BitKeeper functionality.

However, like the GNU/Linux kernel repository, KDE will be available through a read-only CVS interface for anyone preferring not to use BitKeeper for idealistic reasons.

As a matter of pragmatism, the KDE project believes it is time to move forward and embrace next-generation software source control.

They had this ruled when I was in grade school

[cprincipe]

April fools gags were only allowed until noon.

Too bad that rule doesn't apply here.

Re:They had this ruled when I was in grade school

[Dwonis]

April fools gags were only allowed until noon.

That was just a cop-out excuse made by people with no sense of humour.

Re:Could it be?

[EnronHaliburton2004]

I never tried Subversion, but i've heard it's quite good. Can anyone compare it against CVS and the competition?

SVN is like CVS, but with fixes for all the stupid annoying issues. You can actually version directories and metadata in SVN, which rocks. About time.

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?

OK Listen up Taco!

[OECD]

Next year, ONE April Fools story. Got that? ONE! Maybe that way you'll put some thought into making it Funny/Insightful/WorthFsckingReading.

You can link to everyone else's cleverness in a Slashback (remember those?) style roundup.

That is all. Carry on.

For those wondering...

[Illissius]

...this has more humour value for the actual KDE(-devel) community for which it was intended, as KDE really *is* moving over to Subversion. The migration was originally planned to be completed today, but was delayed for a few more days due to various issues.