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Subject: RE: [oasis-member-discuss] distributed VCS (DVCS) platform rollout at W3C
Robin, I see the blog discussion from last year, but I don't see anything about the announcement of availability. Where is that announcement? The discussion on the blog is the usual developer-centric view of the universe and the World readability of what I see at dvcs.w3.org/hg doesn't strike me as much of an accomplishment. Where is the announcement of its availability. Where are whatever procedures put in place to have it fit into W3C policies there are for maintenance of materials, their custody and their provenance? - Dennis PS: I am a little puzzled about "patch" in this statement on the blog: " The goal of such a repository would be to host the reference versions of these items, while allowing as many people as possible to modify, branch, patch the content of the repository, without the hurdles that CVS creates for this kind of cooperation." I assume they do not mean open patching of the reference version (there would need to be something more disciplined for that, I would think). I maintain that I (and any unindicted collaborators) can do all of those things without requiring OASIS to provide anything on my/our behalf other than a way to get and synchronize from a "reference version" on the current SVN, something that is remarkably easy to do. Of course my experience with the OASIS SVN is on a small TC where only two of us have ever done commits and we can easily avoid trampling on the work of each other. So we are probably not representative of those who crave something new and maybe shinier. We also haven't dealt with the preservation of the "reference version" of the work and are not certain how that can be done in the current arrangement. It looks like reference versions would need to be segregated in some way to prevent their alteration and the rewriting of history, just as that is done for documents beyond TC internal working drafts. -----Original Message----- From: Robin Cover [mailto:robin@oasis-open.org] Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 07:48 To: OASIS Member Discuss List Cc: Robin Cover Subject: [oasis-member-discuss] distributed VCS (DVCS) platform rollout at W3C [ ... ] 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 - rcc Robin Cover OASIS, Director of Information Services Editor, Cover Pages and XML Daily Newslink Email: robin@oasis-open.org Staff bio: http://www.oasis-open.org/who/staff.php#cover Cover Pages: http://xml.coverpages.org/ Newsletter: http://xml.coverpages.org/newsletterArchive.html Tel: +1 972-296-1783 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that generates this mail. Follow this link to all your TCs in OASIS at: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php
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