From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Prefer Mercurial instead of git Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 11:33:38 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <52CB0512.8060905@cs.ucla.edu> References: <1388785952.11337.16.camel@Iris> <874n5k12ft.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <1388841220.11337.21.camel@Iris> <87bnzrzuzp.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <1388846290.11337.24.camel@Iris> <877gafzset.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <1388849055.11337.26.camel@Iris> <87fvp3snak.fsf@engster.org> <1388855790.11337.29.camel@Iris> <83txdjvedl.fsf@gnu.org> <52C85224.3040209@cs.ucla.edu> <83ppo7v7jl.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389036832 6310 80.91.229.3 (6 Jan 2014 19:33:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 19:33:52 +0000 (UTC) To: Darren Hoo , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 06 20:33:58 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 1W0Fvx-0005ff-NX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2014 20:33:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37229 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0Fvx-000281-Ac for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2014 14:33:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49523) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0Fvn-000263-W0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2014 14:33:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0Fvg-0006pG-MB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2014 14:33:47 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:55660) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0Fvg-0006pC-Fk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2014 14:33:40 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A11C39E8100; Mon, 6 Jan 2014 11:33:39 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id jDCEONef2Iis; Mon, 6 Jan 2014 11:33:39 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1FDBC39E80FF; Mon, 6 Jan 2014 11:33:39 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 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:167505 Archived-At: On 01/06/2014 04:26 AM, Darren Hoo wrote: > I know you are the core developer. (I am a little sensitive to this word ... Partly because of that kind of sensibility, it's not a productive use of our time to argue about who's a core developer and who is not. Anyway, from a software-engineering point of view, a more fruitful way to think about it is to ask who uses the version-control system the most. Even if a contributor is not a "core developer" (whatever that means), if they use the version-control system a lot while making significant contributions to Emacs, then their opinion should matter. After all, our goal is improving Emacs and advancing software freedom, not exclusion or bureaucracy.