From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Gitlab Migration Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2021 11:42:41 +0300 Message-ID: <83ilzqneny.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83pmu0rvp8.fsf@gnu.org> <32274c2c-1137-1a18-264e-ca294dfda42a@yandex.ru> <878s0ma4ek.fsf@ypei.me> <20210828.065708.1996755748955057415.wl@gnu.org> <83tujanhd0.fsf@gnu.org> <20210828075734.GC29375@tuxteam.de> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="11282"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 28 10:43:49 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mJtwL-0002mJ-9r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 28 Aug 2021 10:43:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37988 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mJtwJ-0007e3-TQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 28 Aug 2021 04:43:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38958) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mJtvT-0006pZ-DX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Aug 2021 04:42:55 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:57502) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mJtvT-0004EX-0U; Sat, 28 Aug 2021 04:42:55 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:2073 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mJtvS-000326-Jy; Sat, 28 Aug 2021 04:42:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20210828075734.GC29375@tuxteam.de> (tomas@tuxteam.de) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:273254 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2021 09:57:34 +0200 > From: > > > You mean, forking it and developing our own version free of those > > problems? That depends on the resources GNU could use for that: if > > there's a need for significant changes, we'd need to maintain that > > fork forever. > > In that case, it seems advisable to understand first why this strategy > didn't work out with debbugs ("our" version seems to languish in a > state that even merging back Debian's improvements over years has > become a difficult task). Is it really hard to understand? The usual reason is availability of resources.