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Re: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req.
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Bastien |
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Re: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req. |
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Fri, 03 Jan 2014 15:24:32 +0100 |
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Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> I didn't ask anyone to please me, and didn't say I
> will stop working on Emacs if it did switch.
Okay. It was suggested that the switch would discourage
you from contributing, I'm glad to read otherwise.
>> Maybe Eli if you could suggest an alternative to bzr
>> (that is not Git, which you hate) people would be open
>> to your suggestions?
>
> I don't see the need. Either we switch to git or we don't, it's that
> simple. No one will switch to anything else.
(I thought Mercurial was another possible choice.)
>> I for one would be open to using another dVCS as long
>> as it makes current contributors happier and allows to
>> get more contributions.
>
> As someone else said, git sucked all the oxygen there was, so here we
> are. As for more contributions, I hope you are right, but I have my
> doubts.
I don't think we will magically get tons of new contributors,
but I know that past contributors like Thierry V. and John W.
said they are more likely to contribute back again, which
already counts as "more contributors" for me.
--
Bastien
- Re: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req., (continued)
- Re: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req., joakim, 2014/01/03
- Re: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req., Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/03
- Re: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req., Juanma Barranquero, 2014/01/03
- Re: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req., Bastien, 2014/01/03
- Re: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req., David Engster, 2014/01/03
- Re: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req., Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/03
- Re: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req., Tom, 2014/01/03
- Re: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req., David Engster, 2014/01/03
- Re: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req., Eric S. Raymond, 2014/01/03
- Re: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req., Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/03
- Re: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req.,
Bastien <=
- Re: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req., Eric S. Raymond, 2014/01/03
- Re: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req., Antonio Nikishaev, 2014/01/03
- Re: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req., Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/01/03
- Re: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req., Barry Warsaw, 2014/01/04
- Re: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req., Karl Fogel, 2014/01/03
- Re: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req., Stefan Monnier, 2014/01/03
- Re: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req., Ted Zlatanov, 2014/01/03
- Re: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req., Karl Fogel, 2014/01/03
- Re: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req., Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2014/01/02
- Re: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req., Ted Zlatanov, 2014/01/03