On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 11:04 AM, John Stowers <[email protected]> wrote: >> A rocket scientist I worked with for a few years told me that >> he likes bzr because he was able to smoothly transition from *rcs* >> and has since been able to continually improve his VC workflow/habits >> at whatever pace was comfortable. And it's not just him--it seems >> like a lot of hackers in rocket science and similar areas are >> still using tools like rcs, or doing their best to just >> `not deal with version control', because rocket scientists have >> better things to do than learn how to use a VCS. And *distributed* VC >> really is a bit of a rabbit-hole, so it's nice to be able to choose >> how far down the rabbit-hole you want to go--and at what pace >> you want to go there. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THNPmhBl-8I > > Back to the topic at hand. It is quite strange that an open project > does not have a public VCS. > > I suggest using github. Most developers know it now, and github offers > a svn interface too. The github website is very nice (as is bitbucket) > and not as horribly slow and difficult to navigate as launchpad (i.e. > bzr).
Yeah, I was sad when someone mentioned bzr. I have worked with it some months ago, and its poor speed seriously discourage me from contributing to projects using it. Oh, and I also find UI of Launchpad terrible. _______________________________________________ This message is sent to you from [email protected] mailing list. Visit http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/foss-gps to manage your subscription For more information, check http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS-GPS
