From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Please don't use revision numbers on commit messages (and elsewhere). Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 23:53:02 +0200 Message-ID: References: <877hbfvwyo.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87tyeivni1.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87k4fevkc1.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87vcyyt190.fsf@wanadoo.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301694842 11189 80.91.229.12 (1 Apr 2011 21:54:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 21:54:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?UTF-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 01 23:53:59 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5mHy-0008Ms-9O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 23:53:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41276 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q5mHx-0000cH-Lh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:53:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=33286 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q5mHo-0000ZW-9e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:53:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5mHm-0000Ja-Qh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:53:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-qy0-f176.google.com ([209.85.216.176]:45771) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5mHm-0000JK-OP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:53:42 -0400 Original-Received: by qyk30 with SMTP id 30so3241234qyk.0 for ; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:53:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=qOmnSP2ekOJFcCIrmCKVzDYn6a1Q9XAB9gPMjYYDWd4=; b=gUFKiQt2JTevKErcwhYkvLDVE+ySfsFKVhdkiQKg1mQ57aRmba0J1VsllS5T0Kbx8v WixkVaypLQrLGjmA0Jm5mAL4yBD67jvlCKlxJaZu5woRnLBvhkOxDDA9wt9z8ryoLvj9 NvpPeeUAtWclTpGu6o7DiS/meLESkjtWNsdXs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=hag+ewrkDFGoQ3M8QqJPWzf79RZZxhhkAtXuNwZvguhPbOoNOjlrGk1Y87GSooaqeF e0SWoTbDAm/6LRj9UDbekLWAvW8nRlpJ/CKqRIvvNE0+x1XiijWbBdTOLjwlxAfqki7F HCl7dC9Hg8DBmSN7tplezHaf+IVY73fPvkHho= Original-Received: by 10.229.49.209 with SMTP id w17mr3817910qcf.170.1301694822112; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:53:42 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.229.94.207 with HTTP; Fri, 1 Apr 2011 14:53:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87vcyyt190.fsf@wanadoo.es> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.216.176 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:138043 Archived-At: On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 17:55, =C3=93scar Fuentes wrote: > Once Emacs switched to a dVCS, it is a distributed project. You can > insist on its centralization all the time, but the truth is that working > on Emacs on a distributed way is a decisions that now belongs to each > and every hacker. I can have my private branches, I can publish them > from my machine, I can exchange revisions with other hackers. Eventually > I can contribute those changes to "central" Emacs, but the process was > distributed all the way, because I chose to do so. Whatever informal > policy some Emacs hackers follow, it is irrelevant to me. Or, to see it from the other side, the way some people use the dVCS to "develop in a distributed way" is irrelevant to the Emacs project policies... because, as has already been said, the project is currently, and for the foreseeable future, using a centralized repository. > This looks like defeatism :-) s/defe/pragm/; > Maybe you perceive the issue as FUD because your workflow? Yeah. Maybe you see the issue as very big because of yours? > I admit that the problem is negligible *now*. I'm glad we agree. > How much importance it > will adquire on the future depends on how Emacs development evolves. You > say it will not turn serious because Emacs development will not > change. Okay, time will tell. No, I'm saying we can cross that bridge once we reach it. =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Juanma