distributed VCS (DVCS) platform rollout at W3C

[Robin Cover <robin@oasis-open.org>]

On April 08 2010, Farrukh Najmi introduced the topic of
distributed VCS at OASIS, mentioning specifically Mercurial
and git/github:

   "svn was great several years back but today it is quite limiting a
   choice now that distributed VCS such as Mercurial (aka hg) and git
   (used by the Linux project) are mature and stable. The benefits of mercurial
   or git are huge over svn..."  See:

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/oasis-member-discuss/201004/msg00004.html

Just FYI: today Alexandre Bertails of W3C announced the availability of a new
Distributed Version Control System, based on Mercurial.

See the blog article on "Decentralized versioning system at W3C" and references:

http://www.w3.org/blog/systeam/2009/12/09/decentralized_versioning_system_at_w3c

All resources in W3C Mercurial will be World readable.  See e.g.,

http://dvcs.w3.org/hg

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