Time to revisit this perennial favourite? Do you feel that Rosegarden's current use of Subversion is an advantage for the project, a disadvantage, or largely irrelevant? Would any change attract more new developers, put off old developers, both, or neither? (Please explain your reasoning!)
Note that I'm a fan of Mercurial (so much so that I work on a user interface for it, http://easyhg.org) and would be inclined to suggest using that, because: 1. It's approachable for people who are used to Subversion 2. But similar enough to git that it should work for people who are "occasional users" of git, i.e. those who have to look up the syntax whenever they try to do anything clever 3. It feels native on Windows as well as on Linux 4. It has a consistent interface and good help But I'm well aware that I haven't been a major contributor during the last couple of years, and that at least two of the people who have (Tom and Ted) have referred to using git, while the main manager (Michael) is more comfortable with Subversion. Converting the repository retaining a sensible amount of history would be tricky (RG svn history is a mess) but possible, and I could handle it for Mercurial (but I wouldn't know how to for git). So, what are your views? (I'm not trying to call for a vote -- rather just call for opinions and get this out of the way while we're thinking about development meta-questions.) Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
