From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Prefer Mercurial instead of git Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2014 15:18:52 -0500 Message-ID: References: <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> <87bnzrslfh.fsf@engster.org> <1388857210.11337.30.camel@Iris> <20140104183458.GA3124@acm.acm> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388866756 14887 80.91.229.3 (4 Jan 2014 20:19:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 20:19:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Jordi =?windows-1252?Q?Guti=E9rrez?= Hermoso , David Kastrup , David Engster , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 04 21:19:22 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 1VzXgj-00084J-UT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 21:19:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55643 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzXgj-0002NX-H0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 15:19:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53382) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzXga-0002Hr-Ip for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 15:19:16 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzXgT-0004mh-8g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 15:19:08 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:12068) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzXgL-0004kn-Cc; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 15:18:53 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFG4rwsm/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNJIgeBsEtkQoDiGGcGYFegxU X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFG4rwsm/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNJIgeBsEtkQoDiGGcGYFegxU X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="43993731" Original-Received: from 184-175-11-38.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([184.175.11.38]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 04 Jan 2014 15:18:52 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 66365604AC; Sat, 4 Jan 2014 15:18:52 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20140104183458.GA3124@acm.acm> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Sat, 4 Jan 2014 18:34:58 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 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:167321 Archived-At: > 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