Hi everyone, Well, let me first say that I'm a bit disappointed at where this thread has gone so far. Some of the words passed around we could do without starting a brand new year.
I want to encourage everyone to stay on topic, so we can actually do something. Now, I didn't say "so we can make decision", because let me make it clear if it wasn't, this thread is not about making decisions. This thread is about giving those making the decision input they need to consider. Who makes the decision? Those who actually have to implement, oversee, and maintain any change. And needless to say, no change will happen unless someone is willing to JF do it. >From what I understand, so far there has been one proposal, from Olav, who proposed that he and John implement John's idea of implementing a git-serve plugin for the bzr repo server. I think many people pointed out the major flaws in that scenario. I want to stress that we should not make the same mistakes that we blame our downstream distros for making, namely: developing hacks in house instead of working them out upstream. Moreover, we should not get ourselves in another homegrown mess that will need to be maintained for the years to come. Look at our bugzilla situation now. git-serve will be a bigger issue. So, here is what I'm bringing to the table: I'm volunteering to work with interested fd.o admins and other volunteers to switch GNOME to git. I need to first go check to see if I can secure enough time to lead this, and if I can get enough peoples' attention to make this happen in a timely manner. I will make an official proposal when I figure those out. Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > [0] I'm reasonably sure it has some. not as the one proposed to avoid > pissing off somebody somewhere because we want to be inclusive -- no, > lemme rephrase that: we are *fucking afraid of committment*. seriously: > an abstraction over DVCS? what have we become? are we *ever* going make > *any* decision about *anything*? this is actually a larger issue with > the GNOME community: we are being afraid. Thanks Emmanuele for bringing this up. It deserves more than a postscript spot. This is a real issue we need to overcome. At some point, we need to understand that we can't make everyone happy. We should aim for making everyone happy-enough. And it helps if individuals also understand that it's not about any single person getting what he wants. That's exactly why we did the survey to get an idea of what the community at large prefers. Cheers, and a late Happy New Year, behdad _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
