From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Move to git is not imminent - esr is just tired of talking about it Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 20:10:45 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <8761pxudsa.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <20140106165108.B6BF4380865@snark.thyrsus.com> <1389030588.11337.48.camel@Iris> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389035476 22075 80.91.229.3 (6 Jan 2014 19:11:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 19:11:16 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 06 20:11:19 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 1W0Fa2-0004z3-5E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2014 20:11:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36898 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0Fa1-0004E5-J8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2014 14:11:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41971) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0FZs-0004Dv-JA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2014 14:11:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0FZm-0007aF-JW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2014 14:11:08 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:57076) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0FZm-0007a9-CM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2014 14:11:02 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W0FZh-0004N7-UM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2014 20:10:57 +0100 Original-Received: from x2f5214e.dyn.telefonica.de ([2.245.33.78]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 06 Jan 2014 20:10:57 +0100 Original-Received: from dak by x2f5214e.dyn.telefonica.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 06 Jan 2014 20:10:57 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: x2f5214e.dyn.telefonica.de X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:MFjXuwC4fMMsvSJ8/PgwNYc9xUI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:167499 Archived-At: Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso writes: > esr, please don't pretend like the move is a fait accompli. While > there git is enjoying an obvious popularity, GNU packages doesn't make > decisions merely based on what is popular. If we just wanted > popularity, we would be putting videos of Miley Cyrus on the Emacs > splash page. "Miley Cyrus" is almost an anagram of Mercurial. At any rate, we could try to make the gnu on the splash screen twerk for increased attention. -- David Kastrup