On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 23:23 +0100, BJörn Lindqvist wrote: > Hello, > > 2008/10/28 Mikael Hallendal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I can't really see us coming to a consensus on this topic. Even after a vote > > we would have people continuing to use Bazaar if Git win and vice verse. > > GNOME is by nature a distributed project with a lot of sub modules, > > maintainers and thus preferences. > > I think that is doubtful. Most people do not care what VCS GNOME uses. > For those who care, and like DVCS, their opinions are probably > something like this: > > svn 10 points > git 100 +/- 5 points > hg 100 +/- 5 points > bzr 100 +/- 5 points > > That is, it doesn't really matter what DVCS GNOME uses. They are all > great systems, all superior to svn. There _may_ be people who have > their favorite DVCS and would be deeply unhappy if their alternative > didn't win, but I think they are in a very (very) small minority, if > they even exists. I think keeping the GNOME developer environment > coherent is much more important than appeasing to individuals > preferences. > > Just have a vote about it. Voting is fun, encourages participation and > involvement, so make as many people eligible as possible.
Why don't we put out a preliminary, non-binding poll to all active account holders? Something like this: Stuff I actively do (check all that apply): [ ] Active development of some set of modules [ ] Cherry-picking bug fixing on lots of modules [ ] Usability work on lots of modules [ ] Accessibility work on lots of modules [ ] Documentation [ ] Translation My take on VCS for Gnome: ( ) Keep svn ( ) Switch to git ( ) Switch to bzr ( ) Switch to hg ( ) Switch to anything distributed ( ) I just don't care ( ) Can I have cvs back please? The first question allows us to look at the numbers for interesting cross-sections of our contributors. Maybe there are other questions that would give us some meaningful breakdowns. -- Shaun _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
