From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req. Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 16:12:22 +0200 Message-ID: <83vby1w3w9.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20140102095347.6834E381D0C@snark.thyrsus.com> <87fvp6bdd9.fsf_-_@ktab.red-bean.com> <83wqiixqbb.fsf@gnu.org> <83ob3uxfr2.fsf@gnu.org> <87wqihdxsw.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <87ha9ltbxr.fsf@engster.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388758358 28242 80.91.229.3 (3 Jan 2014 14:12:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 14:12:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: kfogel@red-bean.com, lekktu@gmail.com, joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org, bzg@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: David Engster Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 03 15:12:43 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 1Vz5UM-0005AH-Vr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 15:12:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50061 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vz5UM-00066G-H1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 09:12:38 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42771) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vz5UG-00066B-7V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 09:12:36 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vz5UB-0006EN-M1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 09:12:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:57468) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vz5U6-0006Ct-HH; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 09:12:22 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MYT00C00WIP9C00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 16:12:21 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MYT00C77WSK9X00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 16:12:21 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87ha9ltbxr.fsf@engster.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 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:167162 Archived-At: > From: David Engster > Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 14:46:56 +0100 > Cc: Juanma Barranquero , Joakim Verona , > Emacs developers , Karl Fogel , > Stefan Monnier , Eli Zaretskii > > I predict there won't be a significant increase in new > contributions. The real hurdles to participate in Emacs development > lie elsewhere. I'm afraid you are right. What's more, I don't see new people coming aboard who would advance Emacs into the future (as opposed to contributing minor improvements and bugfixes -- which are, of course, important as well). I hope I'm wrong, and they will come, with or without git.