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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: "Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso" <jordigh@octave.org>,
	"David Kastrup" <dak@gnu.org>,
	"David Engster" <deng@randomsample.de>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Prefer Mercurial instead of git
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2014 15:18:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvbnzrmrlw.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140104183458.GA3124@acm.acm> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Sat, 4 Jan 2014 18:34:58 +0000")

> There seems to have been something peculiar about bzr that it died so
> suddenly.

Yes: it was mostly developed and maintained by Canonical employees,
during their paid time, i.e. not volunteers.  So when Canonical decided
it wasn't worth the money, the project ended up with basically noone.


        Stefan



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-01-04 20:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-03 21:52 Prefer Mercurial instead of git Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2014-01-04 10:11 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-04 10:20   ` David Engster
2014-01-04 10:33   ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-04 13:13   ` Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2014-01-04 13:29     ` David Engster
2014-01-04 14:23     ` David Kastrup
2014-01-04 14:38       ` Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2014-01-04 15:19         ` David Kastrup
2014-01-04 15:24           ` Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2014-01-04 16:51             ` David Engster
2014-01-04 17:16               ` Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2014-01-04 17:31                 ` David Engster
2014-01-04 17:40                   ` Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2014-01-04 18:34                     ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-01-04 19:26                       ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-01-04 20:18                       ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-01-05 11:07                     ` Leo Liu
2014-01-04 17:35                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-04 18:25                   ` Paul Eggert
2014-01-04 20:03                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-06 12:26                       ` Darren Hoo
2014-01-06 14:58                         ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-06 17:44                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-06 19:33                         ` Paul Eggert
2014-01-04 14:40       ` Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2014-01-05 12:17         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-01-05 13:19           ` Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2014-01-05 13:25             ` Florian Weimer
2014-01-05 13:55               ` Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2014-01-05 15:38             ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-01-05 16:18               ` Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2014-01-05 16:41                 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-05 17:09                 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-01-05 23:26                   ` Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2014-01-06  0:38                     ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-01-06  1:01                       ` Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2014-01-06  0:03                 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-05 17:54             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-01-05 23:03               ` Dov Feldstern
2014-01-05 23:23                 ` Karl Fogel
2014-01-05 23:37                   ` Dov Feldstern
2014-01-06  4:02                     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-01-05 13:56           ` David Kastrup
2014-01-04 14:12 ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2014-01-04 16:08   ` Sebastian Wiesner
2014-01-04 16:41     ` Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2014-01-04 18:37       ` David Kastrup
2014-01-04 18:44         ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-01-04 19:04         ` Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2014-01-04 19:30           ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-01-05 16:23             ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-05 16:46               ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-05 17:03                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-05 16:52               ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-01-05 17:17                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-05 17:55                   ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-01-05 18:07                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-05 18:54                       ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-01-05 21:07                     ` Sean Sieger
2014-01-06  0:12                   ` David Kastrup
2014-01-06  0:21                     ` Rostislav Svoboda
2014-01-06  0:30                       ` Karl Fogel
2014-01-06  2:24                         ` Jay Belanger
2014-01-06 16:51                           ` Karl Fogel
2014-01-06 17:13                             ` Jay Belanger
2014-01-06  3:47                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-05  3:13         ` Jay Belanger
2014-01-05 17:16       ` Sebastian Wiesner
2014-01-06  0:17         ` David Kastrup
2014-01-05  2:14 ` Karl Fogel
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2014-01-06 13:08 grischka

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