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Re: Apologia for bzr
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Ted Zlatanov |
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Re: Apologia for bzr |
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Fri, 03 Jan 2014 13:04:57 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Fri, 03 Jan 2014 11:56:51 -0600 Karl Fogel <address@hidden> wrote:
KF> "Eric S. Raymond" <address@hidden> writes:
>> There are other things we need to do to let sunlight and fresh air into the
>> room. The people who think of Emacs as a relic of bygone decades inhabited
>> by graying neckbeards are not, alas, entirely wrong. And I say that as
>> arguably one of the neckbeards myself...
KF> Right now, two of the biggest sources of hacking energy in the
KF> Emacsosphere are in git repositories separate from Emacs' own bzr
KF> repository: Org Mode and Gnus. Our switching to git will help reduce at
KF> least the degree of separation.
Have you seen the amount of activity on GNU ELPA, MELPA, el-get, and
others? The amount and variety of packages are amazing.
KF> Whether those projects eventually host their "socially agreed on"
KF> primary development branches in Emacs' repository is another question; I
KF> don't know those dev communities well enough to say, despite being a
KF> heavy user of both packages :-). But the mere fact that I instinctively
KF> consider them to be somewhat separate developer communities from Emacs
KF> itself may be partly an artifact of our having been on bzr for so long.
Heh heh. As someone on both sides (Gnus and Emacs) I have to say
contributing to Gnus through Git has been much less stressful for me.
Ted
- Re: Apologia for bzr, (continued)
- Re: Apologia for bzr, Eric S. Raymond, 2014/01/03
- Re: Apologia for bzr, Stefan Monnier, 2014/01/03
- Re: Apologia for bzr, Stefan Monnier, 2014/01/03
- Re: Apologia for bzr, David Kastrup, 2014/01/03
- Re: Apologia for bzr, Dmitry Gutov, 2014/01/03
- Re: Apologia for bzr, Eric S. Raymond, 2014/01/03
- Re: Apologia for bzr, Stefan Monnier, 2014/01/03
- Re: Apologia for bzr, Josh, 2014/01/03
- Re: Apologia for bzr, Eric S. Raymond, 2014/01/03
- Re: Apologia for bzr, Karl Fogel, 2014/01/03
- Re: Apologia for bzr,
Ted Zlatanov <=
- Re: Apologia for bzr, Karl Fogel, 2014/01/03
- Re: Apologia for bzr, Stefan Monnier, 2014/01/03
- Re: Apologia for bzr, Karl Fogel, 2014/01/03
- Re: Apologia for bzr, David Engster, 2014/01/04
- Re: Apologia for bzr, Stefan Monnier, 2014/01/04
- Re: Apologia for bzr, chad, 2014/01/03
- Re: Apologia for bzr, David Engster, 2014/01/03
- Re: Apologia for bzr, Bastien, 2014/01/04
- Re: Apologia for bzr, Tassilo Horn, 2014/01/03
- Re: Apologia for bzr, Ulrich Mueller, 2014/01/03