Are there plans to move FreeBSDs public version control system to another system, away from CVS?
John Baldwin: Probably not anytime soon. The current CVS + CVSup infrastructure that the FreeBSD Project has is a great benefit and would require a large deal of work to replace. Robert N M Watson: Revision control is always topic of active discussion in any open source project, and especially projects in which revision control is so essential to its operation as in the FreeBSD Project. FreeBSD has some pretty intensive requirements for revision control — with several hundred active developers working throughout our CVS tree, not to mention all the external contributors, the FreeBSD CVS repository sees over 50,000 comits a year. We have our eyes on where to go in the future, but whatever we select when the time comes, it will have to support today’s workload, and tomorrow’s as it continues to grow. As John alludes to, one of the ways we make CVS go as far as it does is through the use of extension tools for replicating our CVS repository to thousands of end-systems, avoiding read-only
