Jason D. Clinton wrote: > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Olav Vitters <[email protected]> wrote: >> That isn't a contest. It is a survey. > > Please don't read more in to my email than I intended. There's no need > to get defensive. > > >>> <http://www.gnome.org/~shaunm/survey/first-picks-permutations.png> It >>> seems to me that a lot of brain power, sysadmin time, and general >> I am a sysadmin and disagree with your notion that sysadmin time is >> somehow saved. I'd rather asses such things myself. Further, sysadmin >> time is not so important. > > Thank you for voicing your opinion. > > >>> just all move on? >> Further, your explanation is incomplete. As you said, the graph is about >> people knowing two DVCS systems. I wouldn't say I knew 2. Those 6 are >> incomplete. > > I highlighted this statistical analysis because those 6 contain the > subset of 4 vocal users demanding that we /also/ support bzr. > > >> Now before you reply: we have a clear need for git to work (ranked 1st >> 50% of the time, etc). But if you say "move on", how do you think a >> switch is made? Magic? > > Please don't be patronizing. I'm not an idiot. > > >> Anyway, I'd rather add John Carr to the sysadmin team. I plan to make a >> proposal to switch GNOME to a DVCS where Git works using Johns >> suggestion. Then other sysadmins[1] can suggest whatever proposal they >> want. These proposals can be investigated on merit and then a one can be >> chosen (chosen as in: "go ahead and try if this would work", not "go >> ahead blindly"; everything must be tested before a cutover). > > John's idea is a good one but it patently loses on technical merit. As > stated by John here, git will only be support in a degraded, > bastardized form because he chose bzr as the repository format: > > http://blogs.gnome.org/johncarr/2008/12/11/dvcs-for-gnome/#comment-172 > > Are we really going to go back to the days of CVS where file moves > aren't supported? > > It strikes me that this very vocal minority--John and Robert Carr, > Karl Lattimer and Rob Taylor (whom are four of the six people I > mentioned above)--are potentially delaying even longer what we've > wanted for more than two years, now. It is from these same people that > came the suggestion that git users were a rapid, vocal minority. Why > are we letting them derail this process?
I have to say, that's the first time I've ever been called vocal! I think you over estimate a) how much I've said on the issue and b) how much I care. Have a nice day, Rob > Moving will not be easy, obviously. But doing it John's way will be, > in my technical analysis, an order of magnitude more painful. > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list -- Rob Taylor, Codethink Ltd. - http://codethink.co.uk _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
