Re: Hurd on L4 Project

[Neal H Walfield]

> How much danger is there that we'd end up with a fork of the Hurd
> codebase if we did something like this.

I would imagine minimal.

> Additionally, I've been looking at BitKeeper lately for source control.
> Has anyone tried it? It looks like a nice combination of CVS and
> Clearcase. It works distributed and disconnected like CVS, but has a
> branching and merging scheme more like Clearcase.

This is non-free.

> I looked on sourceforge and I don't see anything like that in the
> projects. I can submit one if needed. However, what is the relationship
> between Sourceforge and Savannah? It seems to me that Savannah is
> duplication of effort with regards to Sourceforge. Are they just worried
> about Sourceforge going away some day?

Sourcefourge is owned by VALinux; Savannah is managed by the FSF.  The
latter was created in response to VALinux introducing proprietary
code.