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Re: On the subject of Git, Bazaar, and the future of Emacs development
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Karl Fogel |
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Re: On the subject of Git, Bazaar, and the future of Emacs development |
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Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:28:32 -0500 |
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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.
- Re: On the subject of Git, Bazaar, and the future of Emacs development, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/04/01
- Re: On the subject of Git, Bazaar, and the future of Emacs development, Xue Fuqiao, 2013/04/01
- Re: On the subject of Git, Bazaar, and the future of Emacs development, John Wiegley, 2013/04/01
- Re: On the subject of Git, Bazaar, and the future of Emacs development, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/04/02
- Re: On the subject of Git, Bazaar, and the future of Emacs development, John Wiegley, 2013/04/04
- Re: On the subject of Git, Bazaar, and the future of Emacs development, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/04/04
- Re: On the subject of Git, Bazaar, and the future of Emacs development, joakim, 2013/04/04
- Re: On the subject of Git, Bazaar, and the future of Emacs development, John Wiegley, 2013/04/04
- Re: On the subject of Git, Bazaar, and the future of Emacs development, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/04/04
- Re: On the subject of Git, Bazaar, and the future of Emacs development, Sam Steingold, 2013/04/04
- Re: On the subject of Git, Bazaar, and the future of Emacs development, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/04/04
- Re: On the subject of Git, Bazaar, and the future of Emacs development, Bastien, 2013/04/05
- Re: On the subject of Git, Bazaar, and the future of Emacs development, Xue Fuqiao, 2013/04/05