Re: DVCS

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org> wrote:
> Claudio Saavedra wrote:
>> On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 15:10 +0000, John Carr wrote:
>>>> Lets not turn this into yet another bazaar vs. git war cause we
>>>> already had plenty of that and nothing good comes out of that.
>>> I think the vote should be down to the foundation members.
>>
>> I actually think that, if any, the vote should be down to the GNOME SVN
>> users. But all of them (or at least those who care enough to vote).
>
> Agreed. Only recently active SVN users. Why should past contributors who do
> not commit anymore decide what DVCS tool *I* use?
>
>> Claudio
>
> behdad
>

Don't forget sysadmins. While not active SVN users, they will have to
support whatever you demand.. Pretty sure they should have a say..

Personally, no one is telling me what DVCS tool *I* use. Its like
mandating I use emacs for GNOME development. Ain't gonna happen...

I have been using bzr-mirror for the past few months happily, thanks to John Carr's work I can pull from either bzr-mirror or directly from svn, and push to svn as if it was a bzr branch.

I personally think that keeping svn, and maintaining bzr-mirror, git-mirror, and hopefully an hg-mirror would make everyone happy. All of bzr, hg and git provide a mean to interop with svn, while there is not always a way to interop between the various DRCS that people tend to prefer, so maybe sticking with svn for now would be the right choice ?

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Ali