From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1UrJOm-0004ey-Mf for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jun 2013 22:54:28 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53903) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UrJOk-0004er-N4 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jun 2013 22:54:27 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UrJOj-0002Ul-Ns for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jun 2013 22:54:26 -0400 Received: from mail-ea0-x22d.google.com ([2a00:1450:4013:c01::22d]:55706) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UrJOj-0002Ud-HJ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jun 2013 22:54:25 -0400 Received: by mail-ea0-f173.google.com with SMTP id g15so6514021eak.18 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2013 19:54:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=5fh5nKjZ17t+eC7hUItXBp7GS9haIKeh2XklM8TmRPY=; b=EWjSEeEUWf7dDru40KHtTJj4G/CivIili+g/vMA62pZAwEvnffZ/E6VjMfma5dPXrX QFN4DDhFP8PwEiBGN9emuSSF6hDdVDeYRXqAirexjvWAWrwqWkKtrrGVR1ObH+OIVTgb nd1rsJnnd1QjAHbzE63lgmftZuU3xp65HV5rmkGUBL0aHuz1xXEiAlaSTOIxak+uQ08J Spu2K1jCabS4DXUd82h7+z/s+TRHfO5Qd7zwbPSbzNURGur+pSh9mdpyOLSj1KA7Mm59 vuDTxtH1eUBSdZsM+V0DrfWhkTsPF6IA4XwbAYPHXuX3+lD7+EXBt4yD+zwpPPxz45Ng B4vg== X-Received: by 10.14.184.4 with SMTP id r4mr27360012eem.100.1372128864101; Mon, 24 Jun 2013 19:54:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.113] (31-249.1-85.cust.bluewin.ch. [85.1.249.31]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id l42sm32473512eeo.14.2013.06.24.19.54.22 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 24 Jun 2013 19:54:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <51C9065E.1090102@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 04:54:22 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130518 Icedove/17.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB Subject: Re: [RFC] Moving from Bazaar (bzr) to git References: <1371924016.6521.24.camel@mattotaupa> <51C61C84.8000901@gmail.com> <51C81EF9.1020608@peda.net> In-Reply-To: <51C81EF9.1020608@peda.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:4013:c01::22d X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 02:54:27 -0000 On 24.06.2013 12:27, Mikko Rantalainen wrote: > Bruce Dubbs, 2013-06-23 00:52 (Europe/Helsinki): >> Paul Menzel wrote: >>> this is *not* the start of a flame war about what VCS is the best. >>> >>> Hopefully everyone will agree, that git is the most popular one in the >>> FOSS world (Linux, freedesktop.org, GNOME, KDE, …) and a lot of people >>> are now familiar with the basic git commands. So using Bazaar is one >>> more thing to deal with for new contributors before making a >>> contribution to GRUB. (I know there is git-bzr-ng, but it is still one >>> more step.) >> >> Personally, I prefer subversion, but I'm not a GRUB developer. The >> choice of version control can be similar emacs/vi or Bourne Shell/C >> Shell, so it really should be the choice of the primary developers. > > I disagree. The choice of version control means a lot more than working > environment of a single developer (primary developer or not) because > that is the medium for sharing the source code. Even Linus himself uses > git over patches from email, even though the latter method is not bad > either for a single patch. > > Once you master even a single DVCS system (e.g. Git, Mercurial, Bazaar), > the limitations caused by subversion or any other centralized version > control system start to look much greater than before. > > I'd suggest trying to apply the workflow used by git development for > grub, too. > > Make sure to have a mirror at github.com and if you don't want to use > github's issue tracker, put a big disclaimer about that in github. As > far as I know, you cannot disable public issue tracker in github > repository's settings. > Moving away from savannah is out of the question. Savannah is official place for GNU projects and as such we'll stay at savannah.