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: Goals for repo conversion day Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 22:24:14 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20140126032414.GB14534@thyrsus.com> References: <20140124170751.GA23376@thyrsus.com> <87mwils3b3.fsf@igel.home> <20140124185429.GA25191@thyrsus.com> <83k3dpcbpe.fsf@gnu.org> <20140125062551.GA2554@thyrsus.com> <83bnz0cxp8.fsf@gnu.org> <20140125140637.GA5631@thyrsus.com> <87fvocdmh0.fsf@zigzag.favinet> <20140125195401.GA13305@thyrsus.com> <87bnyzemui.fsf@zigzag.favinet> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="0OAP2g/MAC+5xKAE" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390706664 2267 80.91.229.3 (26 Jan 2014 03:24:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 03:24:24 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 26 04:24:31 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 1W7GKg-00014y-74 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 04:24:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53370 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W7GKf-0006sS-Qs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 22:24:25 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44410) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W7GKZ-0006sF-Gc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 22:24:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W7GKV-0004GA-DC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 22:24:19 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:46923 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W7GKV-0004G6-8v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 22:24:15 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AEC353806AA; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 22:24:14 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87bnyzemui.fsf@zigzag.favinet> 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:169102 Archived-At: --0OAP2g/MAC+5xKAE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Thien-Thi Nguyen : > () "Eric S. Raymond" > () Sat, 25 Jan 2014 14:54:01 -0500 >=20 > That is true. But beware of misleading analogies! Archeologists > like the seams mainly because stratigraphy helps them date things. >=20 > Repo contents is first order information. Higher order is: What are > the structures that hold the repo contents (i.e., what is the VCS)?; > What are the factors in its choice?; Why are hackers so human?; ... I agree that may be of intyerest at some far future time. For that reason, and others, I do recommend theat old repositories be archived rather than deleted out of hand. --=20 Eric S. Raymond --0OAP2g/MAC+5xKAE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFS5H/erfUW04Qh8RwRAtCIAJ9FPGnszC6Ee6+6klvFjDUZ5t4OMwCfRnu/ qrTnooJPgXDxxvG69xFRvm8= =XM/T -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0OAP2g/MAC+5xKAE--