Sergei Gavrikov wrote: > [...] > First, I would suggest just to vote on VCS for eCos. If we start to > vote in the days during (1, 2 or 3 months), we will get the results > before 2010 and we would get modern VCS for eCos in 2010 (it looks > like 21 :-). > > Folk, What's about Internet Voting (IV) on VCS for eCos? > > We can use CIVS Internet Voting Service to begin the movement > http://www.cs.cornell.edu/andru/civs.html > It is a nice idea, but IMHO this is not applicable. Unless everyone has experience with all the options, such voting is likely to be meaningless, probably boiling down to what those who bother to vote use the most. I don't think you can ask everyone to go out and evaluate all three to vote either. IV can also be skewed - all you need is multiple email addresses.
IMHO, the best way to resolve this is an open discussion on what the pros and cons are. Also you also need to consider that it will be the maintainers with write privileges to the repository who will be the main users of the DRCS/VCS. The only real effect it will have on the rest of us is how we will access the code and how easy we can prepare and push contributions back to the maintainers for integration back into the main source tree (a.k.a. patch process). Ultimately it is the maintainers who should decide based on technical merit, usability, documentation etc - not from half-baked feedback. IMHO it is fair to limit the choice to Bazaar, Git and Mercurial. So far we have had a little to and fro of various features, all of which can be found in all three options - so I think it is fair to say that all three are pretty much the same regarding features and nothing which makes one stand out from the rest. It then boils down to usability (ease of use, GUI and x-platform support) and documentation, where there is a clear leader in most respects... So I am against a public vote unless a reasonable debate/discussion has taken place and all options have been given a fair hearing. Otherwise voting should be restricted to those who have experience with all three options so their choices are properly informed objective choices rather than subjective, political, go-with-the-flow, based on naive assumptions, etc. At least then when a choice is made it can be defended with sound reasoning and not just presented as a fait accompli. -- Alex Schuilenburg >>>> Visit us at ESC-Boston http://www.embedded.com/esc/boston <<<< >>>> Sep 22-23 on Stand 226 at Hynes Convention Center, Boston <<<< >>>> Visit us at ESC-UK http://www.embedded.co.uk <<<< >>>> Oct 7-8 on Stand 433 at FIVE ISC, Farnborough <<<< -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss
