From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?R=FCdiger?= Sonderfeld Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bzr is dying; Emacs needs to move Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2014 14:08:28 +0100 Message-ID: <5717330.DCHrOjE5CV@descartes> References: <20140102095347.6834E381D0C@snark.thyrsus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388668131 10292 80.91.229.3 (2 Jan 2014 13:08:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 13:08:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" , Bozhidar Batsov To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 02 14:08:57 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Vyi16-00074N-MR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2014 14:08:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44931 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vyi16-0007mv-6R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2014 08:08:52 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48624) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vyi0x-0007mk-8f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2014 08:08:50 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vyi0l-0008F5-El for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2014 08:08:43 -0500 Original-Received: from ptmx.org ([178.63.28.110]:48906) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vyi0l-0008Ey-8X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jan 2014 08:08:31 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptmx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9FBB22E7B; Thu, 2 Jan 2014 14:08:30 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at ptmx.org Original-Received: from ptmx.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ptmx.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id TIL71Jr1Iktz; Thu, 2 Jan 2014 14:08:29 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from descartes.localnet (p5DD554C7.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [93.213.84.199]) by ptmx.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 24256220C5; Thu, 2 Jan 2014 14:08:29 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: KMail/4.11.3 (Linux/3.11.0-14-generic; KDE/4.11.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 178.63.28.110 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:167029 Archived-At: On Thursday 02 January 2014 14:30:31 Bozhidar Batsov wrote: > Btw, Richard said then he wanted to give bzr=E2=80=99s maintainer a r= easonable > amount of time to fix some bugs (or so I recall). If this hasn=E2=80=99= t happened - > there=E2=80=99s one more argument in favour of using git. Relying on = a poorly > maintained project is generally worse than relying on a unpopular pro= ject. The bug was finally fixed and a new version of bzr released. But IIRC = this=20 only happened after Richard contacted the developers. I'm not sure if = other=20 bugs get similar attention. Regards R=C3=BCdiger