On Friday, March 27, 2015 at 1:21:48 PM UTC-5, James McCoy wrote: > Why should this be different than any other open source project? If > you want to contribute, you need to learn the tools that are being > used. When tools change, then something different needs to be learned. > It's not up to the project to accommodate every user's individual > desires. >
Because so far the ONLY reason I've seen for moving to git AT ALL is "it makes the git users happy." Why are the git users more important than the Mercurial users? And generally projects move to obviously better or easier tools, when there is consensus that the tools are obviously better or easier. We're talking about moving to a tool with equivalent features, but that is harder to learn, easier to screw up, and has more complications to keep in mind. And we had no consensus for the move. What we had was a bunch of "hey you should move to github!" drive-by posts, followed up by responses as to why we shouldn't, and then Bram came out and said "well I moved us to Github even though I like git better, because most people wanted that". Personally I disagree with the move to git AT ALL. We should have stayed on the system we were using, and shutting down the hosting provider is not a good excuse to change systems. It's a good excuse to find a new hosting provider. It's not even like GitHub has obvious benefits over BitBucket or anywhere else. In fact it has obvious drawbacks: we are REQUIRED to change systems if we go there. But it looks like reasoned decision making is being overwhelmed by git's inertia for yet another project. Don't bother setting up a mirror if it's just a throwaway read-only copy no better than a glorified FTP server. If I want to I can pull directly from Github with hg-git. Dealing with that will be easier than dealing with multiple separate repository locations. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
