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Re: On the subject of Git, Bazaar, and the future of Emacs development


From: Karl Fogel
Subject: Re: On the subject of Git, Bazaar, and the future of Emacs development
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:28:32 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux)

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>Are you saying that the project should choose its VCS because you
>personally use it exclusively, or because you personally don't want to
>learn a new UI?  That'd be absurd.  What about the hours _I_ invested
>in learning bzr -- doesn't that count?  What about the collective
>hours invested in incorporating bzr into our workflows and
>pretest/release cycles, and into writing admin/notes and bzrmerge.el?
>do we just throw that away and start from scratch?  Is your personal
>happiness really worth that much to justify all that waste?
>
>Selecting a VCS is a prerogative of the head maintainers.  Sometimes
>they will ask contributors for opinions, sometimes they won't (I
>participate in projects that did either of these).  The only thing
>that matters is that the selected VCS supports the platforms that the
>project cares about, and that it is reasonably efficient.  Whether
>J.R. Hacker is or isn't happy about the choice is not really relevant.
>I know, because a couple of projects to which I contribute switched to
>git, and no one asked me whether I was happy (nor should they).
>
>Sorry for being blunt, but this is just waaaaay out of line, even for
>this thread.

I think he was just offering himself as a data point (and perhaps
encouraging others to do the same inspection).  My numbers are similar
to John's, FWIW.



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