From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Carsten Dominik Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On the subject of Git, Bazaar, and the future of Emacs development Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 08:53:14 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.3 \(1503\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1364370805 31789 80.91.229.3 (27 Mar 2013 07:53:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:53:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Richard Stallman , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Wiegley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 27 08:53:51 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 1UKlB7-00052h-DN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Mar 2013 08:53:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42593 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKlAj-0000G7-Hb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Mar 2013 03:53:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37834) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKlAf-0000Fh-Ux for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Mar 2013 03:53:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKlAe-0000ux-OS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Mar 2013 03:53:21 -0400 Original-Received: from ezel.ic.uva.nl ([146.50.108.158]:42979) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKlAc-0000uE-2a; Wed, 27 Mar 2013 03:53:18 -0400 Original-Received: from u016822.science.uva.nl (u016822.science.uva.nl [146.50.53.215]) (authenticated bits=0) by ezel.ic.uva.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id r2R7rGpp029485 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 27 Mar 2013 08:53:16 +0100 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1503) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 146.50.108.158 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:158272 Archived-At: On 26 mrt. 2013, at 20:38, John Wiegley wrote: > Hello all, >=20 > We have often debated the merits of Git vs. Bazaar, and which one the = GNU > project should use for Emacs development. I think now is an = appropriate time > to revisit this decision. >=20 > My main reason for bringing this up again is that Bazaar development = has > effectively stalled. There are major bugs which have been in their > bug-tracker for years now -- bugs affecting Emacs development, such as = the > ELPA repository -- whach have been ignored all this time. There are = also > other factors, but this one alone is significant enough that I think = it > justifies us switching over to Git all by itself. >=20 > So, to Richard as the undisputed Czar of all things Emacs: can we now, = pretty > please, switch to Git? :) I'm happy to coordinate whatever resources = it takes > to make a full and faithful conversion from Bzr happen as soon as = possible. For what it is worth, I believe that the Org-mode community would wholeheartedly support such a move, it would simplify things for us enormously. With kind regards - Carsten Dominik