From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gilaras Drakeson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: MAINTAINERS file Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:19:04 -0400 Message-ID: <87hcfezjx3.fsf@work.localdomain> References: <18375.18663.981150.252393@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <87zlte3848.fsf@ambire.localdomain> <877igipc17.fsf@jbms.ath.cx> <87tzjmnsiz.fsf@jbms.ath.cx> <877igbm1vf.fsf@ambire.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205164540 895 80.91.229.12 (10 Mar 2008 15:55:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:55:40 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 10 16:56:08 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JYkM4-0006JF-9S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:56:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JYkLW-0005z1-5m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:55:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JYkLP-0005wh-IA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:55:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JYkLK-0005rr-I7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:55:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JYkLK-0005rm-Dk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:55:14 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JYkLK-0004Oa-4g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:55:14 -0400 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JYkL9-0003Cp-2k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:55:03 +0000 Original-Received: from bas3-toronto02-1279464397.dsl.bell.ca ([76.67.19.205]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:55:03 +0000 Original-Received: from gilaras by bas3-toronto02-1279464397.dsl.bell.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:55:03 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: bas3-toronto02-1279464397.dsl.bell.ca User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:NX4PtYQpEf/b1sBAn7MZSx1urrs= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:92045 Archived-At: Hi all, I have been lurking on this list, until now ... What is the real situation? Do we have data about the number of users of Bazaar vs. git or mercurial? The real situation is that numbers don't matter, except in a popularity contest. I strongly disagree here. In the choice of a distributed VCS, popularity is an important factor not to be ignored. Technical issues are second to that for practical purposes [*]. Having a single common distributed VCS among the large community of free and open software developers can be very beneficial to the whole community, in ways that were not possible until very recently. Dividing the community into bzr and git sects wastes this opportunity. I can only hope that every relevant party puts the current (and predicted future) usage numbers in their decision. -- Gilaras Drakeson [*] CVS and even RCS are in use today, which is not because of technical issues.