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KDE Moves to BitKeeper

Posted by Zonk on from the hard-decision dept.

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."

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  1. Enough.... by xlr8ed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's not even funny anymore...

  2. April fools? by b1t+r0t · · Score: 3, Funny

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

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  3. This is a big SHAME by GNUALMAFUERTE · · Score: 3, Funny

    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?

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  4. OK Listen up Taco! by OECD · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

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  5. For those wondering... by Illissius · · Score: 3, Informative

    ...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.

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