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From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
To: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>,
	"Jordi \\1" <jordigh@octave.org>,
	Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>,
	Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Move to git is not imminent - esr is just tired of talking about it
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 21:26:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAeL0SSjtrcfAVuvO7tei3L5KJxyhEfmNnN1jDj0f7ba+mp+KQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877gac27uk.fsf@floss.red-bean.com>

On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com> wrote:

> Whether or not there are such people, did you see any of them
> volunteering, the way ESR did?

Why should someone volunteer for something that has *not* yet been
decided, and that was proposed four days ago? Are you sure that no one
would, given a little more time and a little more thought? (And no, I
won't, because I don't have the desire or the technical expertise for
that role, so no sour grapes here.)

> ESR is just trying to get something done in a fairly typical way that we
> try to get things done around here.  He didn't "appoint himself"
> technical director for the move -- he *volunteered* to do it, and when
> no one else stepped forward volunteering the same, ESR proceeded on the
> reasonable assumption that the responsibility was his.

Oh, really? Reasonable? I know you have a lot of knowledge about how
free/open source projects work (great book, BTW). Have you
participated in many projects where someone who is not a regular
contributor, or he is but hasn't been active for years,
single-handledly assumed responsibility for something as important as
a VCS switch and put a date to it, in four days? Because what you call
"volunteering" I would call "trampling".

> Maybe he's being a little pushy as to schedule (I agree the switchover
> can wait until after the release)

I'm happy to see that we can agree at least in two points.

> but pushy isn't a sin -- in this case it may be a virtue :-)

Why? I fail to see any virtue in being pushed.

-- and it's quite clear that ESR isn't going to
> argue if Stefan says to wait until after the freeze is over (or for
> whatever reason).

It's quite clear that Eric is not going to go forward without Stefan's
consent. I wouldn't go to far as to say the he's not going to argue.

   J



  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-06 20:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-06 16:51 Move to git is imminent - awaiting Stefan's approval Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-06 17:20 ` Jay Belanger
2014-01-06 19:40   ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-07 15:57     ` Jay Belanger
2014-01-07 11:20   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-01-07 11:26     ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-06 17:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-06 21:09   ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-06 21:29     ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-01-06 23:57       ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-07  0:20         ` Automatically marking conflicts are resolved (was: Move to git is imminent - awaiting Stefan's approval) Óscar Fuentes
2014-01-07  0:43           ` Automatically marking conflicts are resolved David Kastrup
2014-01-07  0:51             ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-01-07  8:33               ` David Kastrup
2014-01-07 11:04                 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-01-07 12:34                   ` David Kastrup
2014-01-07 13:06                     ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-01-07 13:07                   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-01-07  0:17     ` Move to git is imminent - awaiting Stefan's approval Leo Liu
2014-01-07  5:24     ` Thierry Volpiatto
2014-01-07 13:45       ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-07 16:22         ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-08 21:12     ` Barry Warsaw
2014-01-09  0:04       ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-09  6:32         ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-09  7:32           ` David Engster
2014-01-09  9:46           ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-01-06 17:40 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-01-06 18:42   ` Bastien
2014-01-06 19:06     ` Jarek Czekalski
2014-01-06 19:37   ` Drew Adams
2014-01-06 19:42   ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-06 19:51     ` Drew Adams
2014-01-06 20:25       ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-06 20:28     ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-01-07 11:24     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-01-06 17:49 ` Move to git is not imminent - esr is just tired of talking about it Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2014-01-06 18:18   ` Daniel Colascione
2014-01-06 18:39     ` Jay Belanger
2014-01-06 18:41     ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-01-06 20:06       ` Karl Fogel
2014-01-06 20:26         ` Juanma Barranquero [this message]
2014-01-06 22:12           ` Karl Fogel
2014-01-06 22:15             ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-01-07 16:53           ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-07 21:08             ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-01-08  1:19             ` Bob Bobeck
2014-01-06 18:23   ` Drew Adams
2014-01-06 23:06     ` Werner LEMBERG
2014-01-06 19:10   ` David Kastrup
2014-01-06 19:30     ` Drew Adams
2014-01-06 20:32   ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-01-07  2:48 ` Move to git is imminent - awaiting Stefan's approval joakim
2014-01-07 10:03   ` Andreas Schwab
2014-01-07 10:08     ` joakim
2014-01-15 17:23 ` Martin Geisler
2014-01-15 18:39   ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-15 22:57     ` Martin Geisler
2014-01-15 23:53       ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-16 12:25       ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2014-01-16  1:40   ` Yuri Khan

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