From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On the subject of Git, Bazaar, and the future of Emacs development Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 10:13:07 +0900 Message-ID: <87r4ip93vg.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87ehf1cwc4.fsf@maru.md5i.com> <20130331220136.GA16863@saturn> <83ip44iw3b.fsf@gnu.org> <83mwtef9f5.fsf@gnu.org> <85k3ohlwr9.fsf@member.fsf.org> <515E139E.2070302@dancol.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1365124394 23565 80.91.229.3 (5 Apr 2013 01:13:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 01:13:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stephen Leake , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 05 03:13:42 2013 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 1UNvDp-0001RK-0x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Apr 2013 03:13:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40099 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNvDP-0001Ex-VG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 21:13:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:50455) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNvDM-0001Dz-5Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 21:13:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNvDL-0003PH-8f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 21:13:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:45141) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNvDK-0003Ot-Um for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 21:13:11 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 203D19708E6; Fri, 5 Apr 2013 10:13:08 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D9D2E1A3DCA; Fri, 5 Apr 2013 10:13:07 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <515E139E.2070302@dancol.org> X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta32) "habanero" b0d40183ac79 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.224 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:158666 Archived-At: Daniel Colascione writes: > As I see it, the only other viable candidate is Mercurial, which, > while being high-quality, actively-developed free software, lacks > the user base of git. If Mercurial and git are equivalent of > technical and ethical grounds, Evidently, they're not. Technically, people care about UI, and many people hate git's. Ethically, git uses copyleft but most of its developers are pretty clearly firmly in the open source camp (vs. free software), and some of its most popular associated tools (GitHub) use non-free code without apology (although it seems that a lot of people associated with Linux kernel development don't exactly appreciate the attitude of GitHub in many respects). You may not believe either of those outweigh the economic advantages of git, but you should acknowledge those differences of opinion as objective facts.