On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 17:45 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: > 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.
This sounds like a good idea to me. Just poll all people with svn access; people who haven't committed in years will largely self-select out anyways. Might be interesting to ask about level familiarity and/or use of different systems as well. Question for gnome-infrastructure: How do we move forward on it? Do we have an easier alternative at hand then just writing low-tech one off application? - Owen _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list