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Canonical Plans a Version-Tracking Tool for Devs

Posted by timothy on from the even-fresher-meat dept.

daria42 writes "Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has started work on a new project which aims to make easier for Linux developers to find the latest open source software updates, no matter which distribution they are contributing to. The effort encompasses distributed bug tracking, revision control, language translations and more. Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth wants Ubuntu to take advantage of the software, saying: 'As the framework [for using code from across the community] sets, hopefully we are at the centre of it. Further down the pipeline we may need to differentiate on other grounds.'"

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  1. Nifty. by millennial · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Now if they make a similar project for the average end user that has the simplicity of Gentoo's emerge system, but is cross-platform, I'm sold.

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    I am scientifically inaccurate.
  2. CVS and Subversion are centralised by AnEmbodiedMind · · Score: 4, Interesting

    CVS and Subversion are centralised in that there is a central repository.

    Systems such as ARCH allow a virtual repository that is fragmented across multiple servers - some of which might be official, and some might not.

    This lets you branch from a project, but still remain in sync with it, and more importantly do so without permission or help from the official repository.

    There is a lot more to it too.

  3. A File System for Linux by LinuxSneaker · · Score: 4, Interesting

    With all of the fallout with BitKeeper and the need for a Version Control System, has anyone looked at a new filesystem with would natively support this? Not only would software development be great with it, but back-ups would be a breeze.
    Could name it VCFS (Version Control File System)...has anyone used those letters before (amid the NTFS, NFS, SMB, VFAT file systems)?