Re: cvsweb news

I think there was a page on openbsd.org about why CVS, but it was
removed. I think someone should restore it ;)

> It works well for OpenBSD and has it has been for 29 years. There is no
> point in evangelizing on git, hg, or any other version control system.
> CVS works well for the use case here and if it's not broken, don't fix
> it. If they had gotten on all the VCS bandwagons over the years, the
> repo would have gone from CVS to SVN to Mercurial to Git by now. FreeBSD
> went from CVS to SVN to Git over that same time and have had many
> headaches over the years during those transitions and keeping version
> control history sane.
>
> Whenever people scream about wanting to change version control systems,
> they forget all the tooling and process that is built around it.
> Changing that isn't cheap or quick.
>
> I've worked on projects that have kept very old version control systems
> running because all of the tooling was built around it. I've seen
> programs run for 20+ years on CMVC (just when it had been EOLed, they
> eventually moved to git) and PVCS/Dimensions. The Dimensions people are
> staying on that because it would cost too much money to port all of
> their productivity aids and other utilities to git. That money would be
> spent elsewhere on delivering actual code rather than rearranging the
> furniture because someone wanted to put their mark on the project.
> Simply put, if it works, it works. No need to change it.
>
> Nobody is interested in your opinions about version control.
> -Andy Wallis
>