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Linus Drops BitKeeper
ravenII wrote in to mention a story running on CNet, which discusses Linus Torvald's decision to no longer use BitKeeper. From the article: "Linus Torvalds is looking for a new SCM for his project's source code after a conflict involving the current management system, BitKeeper. 'I've decided to not use BK (BitKeeper) mainly because I need to figure out the alternatives,' Torvalds said in a posting. 'Rather than continuing things as normal, I decided to bite the bullet and just see what life without BK looks like.' Coverage on the BitKeeper announcement from earlier this week is also available. Update: 04/10 16:36 GMT by Z : Updated to reflect the story's origin.
Not a dupe at all. The previous article was about how KernelTrap was no longer supporting the free version of Bitkeeper. This is about how Linus is no longer using it.
To compare: Article A talks about George Bush Sr. ending his term. Article B talks about Bill Clinton becoming president. Dupe? I think not.
I am scientifically inaccurate.
Maybe he's looking for a Perpendicular bitkeeper from Hitachi!
I'm just fed up of the mess he's made of CD recording, which comes from the bigger mess there is of the whole device layer. The scsi module should be moved up a level, and ide should work under scsi like usb or anything else does. 2.6 is too unstable because of the stupid decision to have all the development in the stable tree. Also, I want my reiser4, if it needs to go up into the VFS layer let it. Anyway, want to start a fork? Fact is there's too much hero-worship of Linus to ever change him in the main kernel tree, or persuade him he needs to change. The whole point of open source is that when he does something really boneheaded (when, not if, everyone makes mistakes) and won't go back on it, we can fork. I think the time to do that is now.
I am trolling