On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Some fascinating problems (social and technical) to address. I joined the -scm list because it was implied that these things would be discussed over there. Could we "take this outside"? I'd be interested in looking at solutions...but I don't want to drop them in here, since it's been pounded on a few times by a few people that this isn't the place. -- :wq
