On a side note to this thread, GitLab packaging for Debian is happening silently (and of course slowly) in the Debian Ruby group. Anyone is welcome to help. :)
On 17 April 2015 11:07:37 am IST, Marc Haber <mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de> wrote: >On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 19:40:21 -0700, Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> >wrote: >>Iustin Pop <ius...@debian.org> writes: >>> I think the VCS agnosticism is actually detrimental in this context. >>> It's much easier for the user when every repo is using the same VCS. >>> And consistency makes it very easy, for example, to refer to commits >>> across projects, to standardise pull/clone workflows, etc. >> >>+1. VCS agnosticism means you waste a bunch of time making each new >>feature work with every supported VCS, which can include trying to >>shoehorn pretty foreign workflows into the model of some other VCS. > >But it leaves a choice to the author. On a VCS-bound system, all >choice you have is to go to a different place. > >Thankfully, git is by far the best VCS on the market and the vast >majority of people seem to agree. But imagine the outcry if ten years >ago Sourceforge had said "our VCS is svn and we don't support anything >else". > >Greetings >Marc >-- >-------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! >----- >Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im >Header >Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | >http://www.zugschlus.de/ >Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 >72739834 > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >listmas...@lists.debian.org >Archive: https://lists.debian.org/e1yiyy9-0000vg...@swivel.zugschlus.de -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
