On 2/2/2014 9:16 AM, Mitch Davis wrote: > On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 10:40 PM, Joel Holdsworth > <[email protected]> wrote: >> discouraged by the friction. > > Amen. > > Mitch. >
Is using Bazaar really enough "friction" (your word not mine) to prevent developers from contributing to KiCad? I hope not. That would be a very sad commentary indeed. In the 25 years or so of software development, I've used almost every open source and quite a few proprietary VCSs. I never found any of them that difficult to learn (at least as far as the client is concerned) to use it as an excuse for not contributing to a project. If I thought for a second that switching to GIT would make life significantly easier or bring a flood of new highly skilled developers to the project, I would agree to it in a heartbeat. Either I am not that naive or too stubborn change just for the sake of the latest and greatest VCS. The question to ask should not be whether or not to use GIT, it should be which tool best serves the needs of the project. As long as we host the project on Launchpad, Bazaar is probably the best fit unless all of the Launchpad specific tools in Bazaar have been ported to GIT. If they have, I haven't seen them so please point me in the right direction so I can test them. We have so many more important issues to resolve than keeping up with the latest VCS. For those who weren't around for the transition from Subversion/SourceForge to Bazaar/Launchpad, there was a lot of hand holding required for several months by the lead developers. I personally am not ready to go through that again any time soon. While I agree that the lack of development on Bazaar is not a good thing, it doesn't mean that we should immediately abandoned ship a switch to GIT. What happens when GIT matures to the point where development slows down or the next great VCS becomes more popular than GIT? Do we kick it to the curb and jump on the next "great" thing? If someone can provide quantifiable data that GIT will speed up development and/or bring more developers in the project, I would be willing to open up the discussion again. Wayne _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
