Hi, everybody!
On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 07:30:50AM -0500, Richard M Stallman wrote:
Since this discussion still seems to be ongoing, do I take it to
mean
that there is some flexibility on this issue?
There is a little: if bzr is not working fast enough, we will ask the
maintainers to improve it, and wait for them to do so before we adopt
it. But we are not going to switch to some other version control
system.
Can we please all accept that this decision has been made? That we
are
going to switch to bazaar, NOT to subversion, NOT to git, NOT to darcs
and NOT to mercurial. Please?
It doesn't really matter all that much, technically, which dVCS we
switch
to. Any of them would give us advantages over CVS, and CVS works
reasonably well for us. Emacs development is about C, Lisp, and
Texinfo,
not about managing code repositories. So let us just accept bazaar,
the
only questions remaining being "when?" and "how?", and restrict
mention
of other systems to things helpful for improving bazaar.
No matter how good these other VCSs are (and they are good), even if
they
are better than bazaar (for whatever value of "better"), the
decision has
been made. There are too many Emacs developers to take this
decision as
a democratic committee, which is why we have Richard, Stefan and
Yidong
as leaders. Making decisions stick is hard work, and it can become
exhausting, to say nothing of mind numbingly tedious, if they are
continually brought into question. (Yes, I know I've been guilty of
this
too.)
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).