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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] RFC: category "truenames"
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Tom Lord |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] RFC: category "truenames" |
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Sun, 14 Sep 2003 20:45:45 -0700 (PDT) |
> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
> >>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lord <address@hidden> writes:
> Tom> I really didn't have any clue how to make sense of that
> Tom> comment when it appeared but:
> Tom> Would this goal be satisfied just by adding a header to log
> Tom> messages created by `import' which said "Initial-import: yes"
> Tom> (or some such)?
> No. The archive that it was imported from could disappear, so you
> lose the history.
That's mostly a social problem, not a technological one. I've made
sufficient tools. "Cooperate or die," so to speak.
It would be hard to add further mechanism in this area without
defining a political structure that potentiates asymmetric authority
more than anything else. Hard -- but not necessarily impossible: I'm
intrigued by the idea from Monotone of using NNTP and signatures as a
backbone, for example.
> Go back to the original problem. You have a SourceForge-like
> archive
Hmmm. Other structures are certainly both possible and preferable.
Software is politics. register-archive works that way for a reason.
-t
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] ANN: Linux Kernel Arch Repository, (continued)
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] ANN: Linux Kernel Arch Repository, Colin Walters, 2003/09/11
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: ANN: Linux Kernel Arch Repository, John Goerzen, 2003/09/11
- [Gnu-arch-users] RFC: category "truenames" [was: ANN: Linux Kernel Arch Repository], Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/09/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] RFC: category "truenames" [was: ANN: Linux Kernel Arch Repository], Robert Collins, 2003/09/14
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] RFC: category "truenames" [was: ANN: Linux Kernel Arch Repository], Tom Lord, 2003/09/14
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] RFC: category "truenames", Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/09/14
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] RFC: category "truenames",
Tom Lord <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] RFC: category "truenames", Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/09/15
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: project hosts, also "truenames" (was RFC:...), Tom Lord, 2003/09/15
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: project hosts, also "truenames", Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/09/15
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: project hosts, also "truenames", Tom Lord, 2003/09/15
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: project hosts, also "truenames", Miles Bader, 2003/09/15
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: project hosts, also "truenames", Tom Lord, 2003/09/15
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: project hosts, also "truenames", Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/09/15
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] RFC: category "truenames", Robert Collins, 2003/09/15
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] ANN: Linux Kernel Arch Repository, Paul Hedderly, 2003/09/17
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] ANN: Linux Kernel Arch Repository, Paul Hedderly, 2003/09/17