Re: [Bug-grub] Re: an estimated date of 0.90

[Gordon Matzigkeit]

>>>>> OKUJI Yoshinori writes:

 OY> From: Gordon Matzigkeit <address@hidden> Subject: Re: [Bug-grub]
 OY> Re: an estimated date of 0.90 Date: 15 Jun 2001 09:49:01 -0600

 >> As one of the people involved in the (several) migrations, could
 >> you explain what was irritating about them?

 OY> 1. They (including you) didn't ask me about the migration at all,
 OY> although it had a both user-visible and developer-visible
 OY> impact.

The only impact I was aware of was providing an additional way of
accessing the sources.  The Savannah project was never about
overriding the existing ways of doing things, rather giving more
access so that people could administer their projects themselves.

 OY> 2. I heard from loic that the GRUB project had been moved to
 OY> Savannah suddenly. So I asked him if we would need to change the
 OY> CVS repository inevitably, which was the very thing that I wanted
 OY> to avoid, because I had written down the location in the manual
 OY> and README. I, however, have no reply until now.

That's just unfortunate.  Loic should have answered early on, saying
that we were keeping permanent symlinks to the repositories, so they
were accessible under the old names.

 OY> That is not a matter of my anger, as long as that doesn't hinder
 OY> other people. Don't forget that system administration needs
 OY> communications with users as well as other administrators.

Agreed.

Perhaps it was only my own shortcomings that made things difficult,
since I was acting as maintainer at the time (speaking for the GRUB
project, when I didn't speak out against Savannah).

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