I just have a naive question (no pun intended, no flame war
required). Why don't us establish an "official" CVS repository for
the kernel.
Because Linus does not desire to do it this way, and we all respect
his wishes.
This will allow people getting the updates automatically on a
regular basis without having to fiddle with the whole kernel
.tar.gz as well as with the patches (you know, sometimes you just
cannot apply them cleanly, especially if you have 5-10 of them).
[ ... ]
This strategy has been used by the FreeBSD community for ages
(please, don't kick!!!) and IMHO, seems to be a very advanced and
easy to use. After all there is no bad in borrowing the best
features of others' systems.
This is in fact the worst feature of the *BSD projects and is one of
the numerous reasons behind the personal and political problems they
have.
This strategy leads to power struggles and political problems, yeah
today you could say we will be able to overcome the problems caused by
a central CVS tree with multiple people having write access to it or
whatever, this will never stay this way especially with a project as
large as Linux.
In fact I hope that Linus continues to hold the opinion he does on
this matter forever, he has the big red firetruck, he can decide how
he drives it, and this is just fine with me.
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