They wont be using this internally yet, but it will be updated daily I believe

There's no history that's been imported. Just one commit. It isn't even what I'd call an official mirror, let alone an official repo.

Much more interesting would be a mailing list thread where they say what they're planning to do with their version control.

The Erlang team uses ClearCase internally and decided that a full-history conversion to Git would be too difficult to be practical, which is why they are starting with a single commit. According to the official Erlang website:

  Beginning with this release we will maintain (and update on a daily basis) a
  GIT repository on GitHub. The intention is that this will make it easier for
  users to contribute with bugfixes and new functionality and also easier for us
  to receive the contributions.

We (GitHub) worked with the Erlang team to make sure we could provide the functionality they desired to make their bidirection Git mirror widely available and to streamline the patch submission process.

I'm sure the team will further discuss exactly how this new Git repository impacts Erlang developers wishing to submit changes. Everything I gathered from our conversation with them makes me believe they are dedicated to making this new process work for the Erlang community and I'm excited to see the development of Erlang/OTP accelerated because of it.

It also looks like they still aren't releasing the test suite, which makes it very difficult for anyone outside Ericsson to contribute to the project.

I asked kenneth at the euc about the test suite and he said there would be some tests initially and more to come

(crosses fingers)

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I believe every repository is 404'd right now on Github.