From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On the subject of Git, Bazaar, and the future of Emacs development Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:07:50 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1364389688 24668 80.91.229.3 (27 Mar 2013 13:08:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 13:08:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: John Wiegley , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 27 14:08:33 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 1UKq5Y-0000Pv-Px for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:08:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40814 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKq5A-0001T1-Nx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:08:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:60817) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKq56-0001Si-Hz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:07:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKq55-0002i4-4Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:07:56 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:23066) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKq54-0002ha-Uw; Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:07:55 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFFFxLSu/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNJIgeBsEtkQoDpHqBXoMT X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFFFxLSu/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNJIgeBsEtkQoDpHqBXoMT X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="5896645" Original-Received: from 69-196-180-174.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.180.174]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 27 Mar 2013 09:07:50 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 7C80D69D06; Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:07:50 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:02:57 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 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:158297 Archived-At: > The maintainer says he is fixing some bugs, and I asked him > just yesterday to fix the ELPA branch bug. > I'd like to give him a reasonable time to do this. I'm not interested. GNU ELPA will move to Git, which will make lots of things easier since it merges from various external branches, 99% of which use Git (which currently forces me to do a good bit of gymnastics to use bzr-git and then work around some of its limitations, which will never be fixed because they can't really be called bugs). Stefan