Re: Bash source repository

[Michael Witten]

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 03:09, Bradley M. Kuhn <bkuhn@ebb.org> wrote:
>
> Michael Witten replied a few minutes ago:
>> it is my opinion that all further development should take place through
>> a public, distributed repository such as the one you have created -
>> regardless of Chet's objections.
>
> It seems that two different conversations have been conflated here.  My
> goal was to simply finish what Jari was seeking to do with
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git two years ago.  I believe I have
> succeed in that: specifically, putting all the historical information
> currently available into a single git repository.  I'm also offering to
> maintain the same indefinitely.
>
> What you've raised another issue entirely that perhaps should be
> discussed, but I hope it won't be conflated with what I was trying to do
> by creating the Git repository.  It's true that perhaps this Git
> repository I created could be used as a basis to explore what you are
> proposing, but the two issues are ultimately only tangentially related.

I take full responsibility for accusations of mutiny :-)