On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:54 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <phco...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 24.06.2013 12:27, Mikko Rantalainen wrote: >> >> Bruce Dubbs, 2013-06-23 00:52 (Europe/Helsinki): >>> >>> Paul Menzel wrote: >>>> >>>> this is *not* the start of a flame war about what VCS is the best. >>>> >>>> Hopefully everyone will agree, that git is the most popular one in the >>>> FOSS world (Linux, freedesktop.org, GNOME, KDE, ...) and a lot of people >>>> are now familiar with the basic git commands. So using Bazaar is one >>>> more thing to deal with for new contributors before making a >>>> contribution to GRUB. (I know there is git-bzr-ng, but it is still one >>>> more step.) >>> >>> >>> Personally, I prefer subversion, but I'm not a GRUB developer. The >>> choice of version control can be similar emacs/vi or Bourne Shell/C >>> Shell, so it really should be the choice of the primary developers. >> >> >> I disagree. The choice of version control means a lot more than working >> environment of a single developer (primary developer or not) because >> that is the medium for sharing the source code. Even Linus himself uses >> git over patches from email, even though the latter method is not bad >> either for a single patch. >> >> Once you master even a single DVCS system (e.g. Git, Mercurial, Bazaar), >> the limitations caused by subversion or any other centralized version >> control system start to look much greater than before. >> >> I'd suggest trying to apply the workflow used by git development for >> grub, too. >> >> Make sure to have a mirror at github.com and if you don't want to use >> github's issue tracker, put a big disclaimer about that in github. As >> far as I know, you cannot disable public issue tracker in github >> repository's settings. >> > Moving away from savannah is out of the question. Savannah is official place > for GNU projects and as such we'll stay at savannah. > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
Hello! I agree. Moving away from hosting there is not an option. But what about the decision concerning BZR? ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
