From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Apologia for bzr Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 12:48:06 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20140103174806.GD17261@thyrsus.com> References: <83wqiixqbb.fsf@gnu.org> <20140102172804.GB13245@thyrsus.com> <83vby2xo6x.fsf@gnu.org> <20140102183432.GB13506@thyrsus.com> <83sit6xgfg.fsf@gnu.org> <8761q18kni.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.org> <838uuxxsxu.fsf@gnu.org> <83wqihw42f.fsf@gnu.org> <8761q15cc2.fsf@wanadoo.es> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388771293 21524 80.91.229.3 (3 Jan 2014 17:48:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 17:48:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar?= Fuentes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 03 18:48:20 2014 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 1Vz8r5-0001nw-5O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 18:48:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51020 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vz8r4-0005q8-Po for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 12:48:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60745) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vz8qx-0005g9-3m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 12:48:15 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vz8qs-0004do-He for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 12:48:11 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:38673 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vz8qs-0004dj-DT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 12:48:06 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 27A18380488; Fri, 3 Jan 2014 12:48:06 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8761q15cc2.fsf@wanadoo.es> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 71.162.243.5 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:167198 Archived-At: =D3scar Fuentes : > Switching from CVS to a dVCS was a good move (I think you agreed with > this on previous posts on this ml.) But, if you wished to attract users= , > choosing a tool that requires from almost everybody to learn it for the > sole purpose of contributing to Emacs was most unfortunate. Emacs would > be better off with CVS on this regard. I wouldn't go *that* far. In 2013/2014, CVS is a bad joke. People laughed and pointed. --=20 Eric S. Raymond