On 01/10/2012 17:51, Gregory M. Turner wrote: > > Anyhow, I get it: administering the vcs for a huge project such as > Gentoo is very hard work. If I somehow gave some other impression, I'm > sorry. Perhaps Rich and I insensitively voiced our shared assumption > that Gentoo's continued reliance on cvs stems from a lack of motivation > and consensus, rather than a shortage of labor and resources.
That's definitely not the case. While we do have had some complains (mostly from Prefix last I knew) about git's working, the consensus for going to git is there. The problems are vastly technical. Problems such as "how many developers would be fine with having to checkout 2GB of history to be able to commit"? git support shallow clones but not if you want to commit to them. > Then > again, if the folks in the trenches doing the work think I've slighted > them, surely they are perfectly capable of chewing me out on their own > behalfs and don't need you to do it for them? It is at the very least disturbing that you think that people whose work, and commitment, has been overlooked for a whole discussion can't be bothered by it unless they are actually reactive aggressively. I know the kind of thankless tasks Infra has to deal with on a daily basis, and I think they deserve more respect that most of the time they are given here, especially when technical challenges are billed under the "we just need to push harder for it to move" banner like this time. -- Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes [email protected] — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/
