to the U-Boot developers, its popularity is growing very fast and I
think that
patch management task is become really huge. I started working with
BitKeeper
because Linux 2.6 and I think it could ease this task a lot.
It could if it was usable. But it ain't. It restricts your freedom in an unacceptable way. Did you read the BKL license? [It's difficult to do because it's only readable AFTER installing the product.] Did you read for example section "3. LICENSEE OBLIGATIONS": "(d) No free use for competitors".
I see. I agree this is a very good reason to avoid adopting it.
But I am perfectly aware that a system with support for distributed repositories would be beneficial. We will probably try switching to arch.
Great.
And while we are at it: another thing that would be useful is a patch database. Any suggestions?
The system used by www.arm.linux.org.uk seems very powerful. We could ask Russell about it.
llandre
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