On Fri, 5 May 2006, Randy Noval wrote:
That said, there must be an "official" version, and that can be maintained by the developers on SF.net, but I don't see a reason why there can't be an exact copy running on one or many volunteers' servers to enable access and updates for multiple contributers. The developers can pick and choose what changes they want to introduce to the "official" product without much effort (once SF.net SVN is going).
This can work the same way a wiki does, sure any one person can cause annoyance, but that is quickly alleviated by the many people working hard to keep this project going.
I don't know how that would work - a wiki for C code sounds like a
bad idea to me. I don't think you can really have multiple source control systems -- maybe some sort of mirroring would work - but there has to be a main one that the developers use, and the other copy it. As for people getting mad and going away - it doesn't seem like you could get any worse than a month of downtime, when switching to some other provider.