From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Fogel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Bazaar repository Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:03:09 -0400 Message-ID: <87fxuoznk2.fsf@red-bean.com> References: <87skyvse7k.fsf@xmission.com> <86ejae96t4.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <47DA3601.3040507@arbash-meinel.com> <87r6ecsww7.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <200803180148.m2I1m0dB003724@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> Reply-To: Karl Fogel NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205813009 29919 80.91.229.12 (18 Mar 2008 04:03:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:03:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, Chong Yidong , Stefan Monnier , Emacs Devel To: dhruva Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 18 05:03:57 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JbT3L-0004K4-Iq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:03:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JbT2l-0006Y1-Ox for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:03:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JbT2i-0006Xc-12 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:03:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JbT2g-0006XF-Hf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:03:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JbT2g-0006XC-Bw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:03:14 -0400 Original-Received: from sanpietro.red-bean.com ([66.146.193.61]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JbT2g-0004JY-2P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:03:14 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:32925 helo=floss ident=kfogel) by sanpietro.red-bean.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1JbT2b-0007IW-U1; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:03:09 -0500 In-Reply-To: (dhruva's message of "Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:43:51 +0530") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:92867 Archived-At: dhruva writes: > With lengthy discussions having taken place on this SCM issue, what > are we waiting for? Are there really any concrete plans to move to a > dSCM or are we just wasting talking about features and shortcomings of > each tool. Any outcome of ESR study? I think you may have missed the news :-). We decided on bzr, which in practice seems to mean "some people are seriously testing bzr, and once we have a good conversion and are satisfied we can get work done, someone will install it on savannah and that repository will be the new master". All of the DVCSs seem good. No one marshalled any compelling arguments in favor of one versus the other on technical grounds, and all other things being equal, RMS (and maybe some others, perhaps including Yidong and Stefan?) preferred bzr because it is a GNU project. The above is a summary of what I take to be the current state of things. My personal opinions: I'm also happy with bzr, and would be equally happy with any of the usual suspects among free software DVCS. I just hope we can switch the master soon. -Karl