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distributed VCS (DVCS) platform rollout at W3C

From: Robin Cover
To: [email protected]
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:48:00 -0000

On April 08 2010, Farrukh Najmi introduced the topic of distributed VCS at OASIS, mentioning specifically Mercurial and git/github: "svn was great several years back but today it is quite limiting a choice now that distributed VCS such as Mercurial (aka hg) and git (used by the Linux project) are mature and stable. The benefits of mercurial or git are huge over svn..." See: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/oasis-member-discuss/201004/msg00004.html Just FYI: today Alexandre Bertails of W3C announced the availability of a new Distributed Version Control System, based on Mercurial. See the blog article on "Decentralized versioning system at W3C" and references: http://www.w3.org/blog/systeam/2009/12/09/decentralized_versioning_system_at_w3c All resources in W3C Mercurial will be World readable. See e.g., http://dvcs.w3.org/hg - rcc Robin Cover OASIS, Director of Information Services Editor, Cover Pages and XML Daily Newslink Email: [email protected] Staff bio: http://www.oasis-open.org/who/staff.php#cover Cover Pages: http://xml.coverpages.org/ Newsletter: http://xml.coverpages.org/newsletterArchive.html Tel: +1 972-296-1783