Xaraya to use Monotone for versioning control

Since it's inception, the Xaraya project has been using a software 
configuration management (SCM) tool providing distributed versioning 
control. Xaraya is pleased to announce Monotone [http://venge.net/monotone/] 
as their new distributed version control system. Monotone replaces our 
previously used free Bitkeeper [http://bitmover.com] tool.

Bitkeeper has served the project well to date as a tool allowing 
peer-to-peer, collaborative development among the project's developers, 
spread across the world. However the new, opensource client announced by 
Bitkeeper in March 2005 [http://www.bitkeeper.com/press/2005-03-17.html] 
does not meet the development needs of the Xaraya project. Monotone 
therefore replaces Bitkeeper as the project's choice for a free to use, 
opensource SCM tool that meets the functional needs of a distributed and 
collaborative development environment.

Xaraya's focus is on free, open source development of it's code. Since the 
Bitkeeper opensource tool announcement  and the followup announcement of 
Bitkeeper's opensource migration plan in April 
[http://www.bitkeeper.com/press/2005-04-05.html] this year, Xaraya's efforts 
have also been concentrated on evaluating various SCMs and choosing a tool 
that will continue to provide the focus and functionality the project's 
development needs.  Xaraya's Repository Manager, Marcel van der Boom, has 
led this effort. With the help from members of the development team we now 
have our new Monotone repositories in place. We are happy to announce the 
conversion process to Monotone has preserved the Xaraya versioning history. 
You can view the beginnings of our web based access to the repositories at 
http://mt.xaraya.com/ (temporary).

Further announcements on our new processes using Monotone, and public access 
to Xaraya code and versioning information will be announced in the coming 
weeks. Check the Xaraya developer newsgroup and mailing list for updates. 
Thanks to everyone for their efforts to date with ideas, discussion, and the 
hard work involved in getting us to where we are now!

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Xaraya PMC